Department of Pathology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
A teaching Affliate of Harvard Medical School
 

Name and Present Position:

FREDERICK R. BIEBER, Medical Geneticist

Address:

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Pathology, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA

Medical School (including school name, date and degree awarded):

1980 PhD, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA
  Graduate Medical Education (including dates and institution of internships, residencies,
fellow-ships, etc.):

1980-1983 Research Fellow in Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
1980-1983 Research fellow in Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Certification:

1982 American Board of Medical Genetics (Medical Genetics)
1987 American Board of Medical Genetics (Clinical Cytogenetics)
1993 American Board of Medical Genetics (Clinical Molecular Genetics)

NY State Certification of Qualification as Laboratory Director in Cytogenetics, Genetic Testing, Paternity Testing

Current Academic Appointments:

Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Visiting Instructor in Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Current Medical Staff Appointments:

Medical Geneticist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Consultant in Teratology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Consultant in Pathology, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
Special Consultant, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Boston, MA

Selected Bibliography:

  • Frederick R. Bieber, Charles H. Brenner, David Lazer Finding Criminals Through DNA of Their Relatives : Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1122655, Submitted on November 15, 2005, Published Online May 11, 2006 abstract reprint,PDF
  • Rasmussen SA, Bieber FR, Benacerraf BR, Lachman RS, Rimoin DL, Holmes LB.  Epidemiology of osteochondrodysplasias. Changing trends due to advances in prenatal diagnosis. Am J Med Genet 61:49-58, 1996
  • Robertson NG, Skvorak AB, Yin Y, Weremowicz S, Johnson KR, Kovatch KA, Battey JF, Bieber FR, Morton CC.  Mapping and characterization of a novel cochlear gene in human and in mouse:  a positional candidate gene for a deafness disorder, DFNA9.  Genomics 46:345-354, 1997
  • Bieber FR.  Overview of human identity testing and forensic genetics.  Unit 14.1, Current Protocols in Human Genetics, pg 14.1.1 - 14.1.6, 1997
  • Bing DH, Bieber FR.  Isolation of DNA for forensic   evidence. Unit 14.3, Current Protocols in Human Genetics, pg 14.3.1-14.3.28, 1998
  • Winter RM, Knowles SAS, Bieber FR, Baraitser M.  The Malformed Fetus and Stillbirth.  Diagnostic Approach. Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, 1988
  • Bing DH, Bieber FR.  Manual methods for PCR-based forensic DNA analysis.  Unit 14.6, Current Protocols in Human Genetics, pg 14.6.1 - 14.6.33, 1999
  • Ing PS, Van Dyke DI, Caudill SP, Reidy JA, Bieber FR, et al. Detection of mosaicism in amniotic fluid cultures: a CYTO2000 collaborative study.  Genetics in Medicine 1:94-97,1999
  • Bieber FR, Miles HL, et al. (eds.) Forensic DNA Evidence in the Courtroom, Boston, MCLE, 1999
  • Bing DH, Bieber FR, Holland MM, Huffine EF.  Isolation of DNA from forensic evidence, Unit 14.3, Current Protocols in Human Genetics, pg14.3.1-14.3.19, Supplement 26, 2000
  • Weremowicz S, Sandstrom DJ, Morton CC, Niedzwiecki CA, Sandstrom MM, Bieber FR.  FISH for rapid detection of  aneuploidy; experience in 911 prenatal cases. Prenatal Diagnosis 21:262-269,2001
  • Ladd C, Lee H, Bieber FR.  Forensic analysis of complex DNA mixtures.  Croatian Med J 42(3): 244-246, 2001
  • Bieber, FR. Reckoning with the dead.  Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin 76(2): 34-37, 2002
  • Bieber FR. Science and Technology of Forensic DNA Profiling, in Lazer D (ed): DNA and the Criminal Justice System, MIT Press, 2004
  • Budowle B, Bieber FR, Eisenberg A. Forensic aspects of mass disasters: strategic considerations for DNA-based human identification, Leg Med, 7(4):230-243, 2005
  • Hoffman J, Bieber FR, et al.  Report of the Massachusetts Governor's Council on Capital Punishment, Indiana Law Journal 80(1):1-27, 2005 
  • Bieber FR, Ethics, science and the law on capital punishment. Indiana Law Journal 80(1):69-72, 2005
  • Budimlija ZM, Lechpammer M, Popiolek, D, Fogt F, Prinz M, Bieber, FR.  Forensic applications of laser capture microdissection: use in DNA-based parentage testing and
    platform validation. Croatian Medical Journal,46(4): 549-555, 2005
  • Biesecker LG, Bailey-Wilson JE, Ballantyne J, Baum H, Bieber FR, Brenner C, Budowle B, Butler JM, Carmody Conneally PM, Duceman B, Eisenberg A, Forman L, Kidd KL, LeClair B, Niezgoda S, Parsons T, Pugh E, Shaler R, Sherry ST, Sozer A, Walsh A. DNA Identifications after the 9/11 World Trade Center attack.  Science 310 (5751): 1122 – 1123, 2005