Director, Metabolism Program
Boston Children’s Hospital Harvey Levy Chair in Metabolism
Boston Children’s Hospital Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Berry is the Harvey Levy Chair in Metabolism at the Boston
Children’s Hospital, and Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School.
He is the Director of the Metabolism Program at
BCH, and the Harvard Medical School Biochemical Genetics
Training Program. He received an MD degree from the Jefferson Medical
College and completed his residency in pediatrics at the Thomas Jefferson
University Hospital in 1978. He then began a combined fellowship in biochemical
genetics and pediatric endocrinology at the Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia, and joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in 1981. Dr. Berry was
promoted to Professor of Pediatrics in 1995. He was the recipient of the 2004 Emmanuel
Shapiro SIMD Award. Dr. Berry is the president of the Society for Inherited
Metabolic Disorders (“SIMD”). He is also co-chair of the Undiagnosed Disease Network‘s Metabolomics Working Group.
Director, Metabolism Program
Boston Children’s Hospital Harvey Levy Chair in Metabolism
Boston Children’s Hospital Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Berry is the Harvey Levy Chair in Metabolism at the Boston
Children’s Hospital, and Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School.
He is the Director of the Metabolism Program at
BCH, and the Harvard Medical School Biochemical Genetics
Training Program. He received an MD degree from the Jefferson Medical
College and completed his residency in pediatrics at the Thomas Jefferson
University Hospital in 1978. He then began a combined fellowship in biochemical
genetics and pediatric endocrinology at the Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia, and joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in 1981. Dr. Berry was
promoted to Professor of Pediatrics in 1995. He was the recipient of the 2004 Emmanuel
Shapiro SIMD Award. Dr. Berry is the president of the Society for Inherited
Metabolic Disorders (“SIMD”). He is also co-chair of the Undiagnosed Disease Network‘s Metabolomics Working Group.
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CONCLUSIONS: Ensilication enables diagnostic-quality native long-read sequencing without cold-chain infrastructure, supporting ambient storage and transport while preserving both sequence and methylation information.
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CONCLUSION: Using a high-throughput cost-effective PCR assay, we identified three SCA4 families in a large US ataxia cohort. Haplotype analysis supports a common Swedish founder allele, consistent with previously reported SCA4 cases. SCA4 diagnostic testing is recommended for all patients of Swedish ancestry with undiagnosed ataxia. © 2026 The Author(s). Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.