Helen M. Berman is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She was a co-founder of the Protein Data Bank (PDB) that is an archive of information about the structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies. Helen is a Fellow of the Biophysical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Crystallographic Association and the International Society for Computational Biology. She is the recipient of several awards including the Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences, the DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences, the ACA Martin Buerger and David Rognlie Awards, the Distinguished Service Award from the Biophysical Society, and the Carl Brändén Award from the Protein Society.