John L. Berk MD

Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine

Graduate Faculty (Primary Mentor of Grad Students)

72 E. Concord Street | (617) 358-4774
John Berk
Sections

Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine

Centers

Pulmonary Center

Amyloidosis Center

Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research

Biography

Expertise in Amyloidosis with specific emphasis in Familial and localized amyloid disease; pulmonary fibrosis.

Education

MD, Case Western Reserve University

Biology, BA, Wesleyan University

Publications

Published on 3/21/2024

Luigetti M, Quan D, Berk JL, Conceição I, Misumi Y, Chao CC, Bender S, Aldinc E, Vest J, Adams D. Impact of Baseline Neuropathy Severity on Vutrisiran Treatment Response in the Phase 3 HELIOS-A Study. Neurol Ther. 2024 Mar 21. PMID: 38512694.

Published on 2/6/2024

Garcia-Pavia P, Grogan M, Kale P, Berk JL, Maurer MS, Conceição I, Di Carli M, Solomon SD, Chen C, Yureneva E, Vest J, Gillmore JD. Impact of vutrisiran on exploratory cardiac parameters in hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis with polyneuropathy. Eur J Heart Fail. 2024 Feb; 26(2):397-410. PMID: 38321786.

Published on 12/11/2023

Lau KHV, Prokaeva T, Zheng L, Doros G, Kaku MC, Spencer B, Berk J, Sanchorawala V. Neurofilament light chain kinetics as a biomarker for polyneuropathy in V122I hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis. Amyloid. 2023 Dec 11; 1-3. PMID: 38073425.

Published on 12/7/2023

Masri A, Maurer MS, Claggett BL, Kulac I, Waddington Cruz M, Conceição I, Weiler M, Berk JL, Gertz M, Gillmore JD, Rush S, Chen J, Zhou W, Kwoh J, Duran JM, Tsimikas S, Solomon SD. Effect of Eplontersen on Cardiac Structure and Function in Patients With Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis. J Card Fail. 2023 Dec 07. PMID: 38065307.

Published on 10/26/2023

Maurer MS, Kale P, Fontana M, Berk JL, Grogan M, Gustafsson F, Hung RR, Gottlieb RL, Damy T, González-Duarte A, Sarswat N, Sekijima Y, Tahara N, Taylor MS, Kubanek M, Donal E, Palecek T, Tsujita K, Tang WHW, Yu WC, Obici L, Simões M, Fernandes F, Poulsen SH, Diemberger I, Perfetto F, Solomon SD, Di Carli M, Badri P, White MT, Chen J, Yureneva E, Sweetser MT, Jay PY, Garg PP, Vest J, Gillmore JD. Patisiran Treatment in Patients with Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis. N Engl J Med. 2023 Oct 26; 389(17):1553-1565. PMID: 37888916.

Published on 10/17/2023

Coelho T, Marques W, Dasgupta NR, Chao CC, Parman Y, França MC, Guo YC, Wixner J, Ro LS, Calandra CR, Kowacs PA, Berk JL, Obici L, Barroso FA, Weiler M, Conceição I, Jung SW, Buchele G, Brambatti M, Chen J, Hughes SG, Schneider E, Viney NJ, Masri A, Gertz MR, Ando Y, Gillmore JD, Khella S, Dyck PJB, Waddington Cruz M. Eplontersen for Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis With Polyneuropathy. JAMA. 2023 Oct 17; 330(15):1448-1458. PMID: 37768671.

Published on 7/31/2023

Obici L, Ajroud-Driss S, Lin KP, Berk JL, Gillmore JD, Kale P, Koike H, Danese D, Aldinc E, Chen C, Vest J, Adams D. Impact of Vutrisiran on Quality of Life and Physical Function in Patients with Hereditary Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloidosis with Polyneuropathy. Neurol Ther. 2023 Oct; 12(5):1759-1775. PMID: 37523143.

Published on 12/16/2022

Coelho T, Waddington Cruz M, Chao CC, Parman Y, Wixner J, Weiler M, Barroso FA, Dasgupta NR, Jung SW, Schneider E, Viney NJ, Dyck PJB, Ando Y, Gillmore JD, Khella S, Gertz MA, Obici L, Berk JL. Characteristics of Patients with Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis-Polyneuropathy (ATTRv-PN) in NEURO-TTRansform, an Open-label Phase 3 Study of Eplontersen. Neurol Ther. 2023 Feb; 12(1):267-287. PMID: 36525140.

Published on 11/29/2022

Tsai FJ, Nelson LT, Kline GM, Jäger M, Berk JL, Sekijima Y, Powers ET, Kelly JW. Characterising diflunisal as a transthyretin kinetic stabilizer at relevant concentrations in human plasma using subunit exchange. Amyloid. 2023 Jun; 30(2):220-224. PMID: 36444793.

Published on 11/16/2022

Brannagan TH, Berk JL, Gillmore JD, Maurer MS, Waddington-Cruz M, Fontana M, Masri A, Obici L, Brambatti M, Baker BF, Hannan LA, Buchele G, Viney NJ, Coelho T, Nativi-Nicolau J. Liver-directed drugs for transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis. J Peripher Nerv Syst. 2022 Dec; 27(4):228-237. PMID: 36345805.

View full list of 123 publications.