Margery Deutz Perry is the past Chair of Research at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) International, the leading charitable funder and advocate of juvenile (type 1) diabetes research worldwide. As Chair of Research at the JDRF, Ms. Perry oversaw both the development and implementation of JDRF's research goals and priorities. She also had responsibility for supervising and approving all aspects of JDRF's research programs. Ms. Perry joins the Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases Subcommittee.

They will serve until 2009.


Established by law and charter, the NIDDK Advisory Council meets three times annually to advise the NIDDK about its research portfolio. The Council typically undertakes broad issues of science policy. Members of the Advisory Council are drawn from the scientific and lay communities, are appointed for 4-year terms, and represent all areas within the Institute's research mission. An important role of the Council is to provide second-level peer review of grant applications that have been scored by scientific review groups. The Council members are an important liaison between the research communities they represent and the NIDDK, which supports each community's research efforts.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- The Nation's Medical Research Agency -- includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov.

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