Andrew A. Bremer, M.D., Ph.D., M.A.S, was named Acting Director of the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in April 2025. Since September 2023, Dr. Bremer has served as Director of the NIH Office of Nutrition Research (ONR). Dr. Bremer is committed to the missions of ONR and ODS. Working collaboratively with the NIH Institutes and Centers, he works to advance and coordinate nutrition research and participate in the development of new NIH-wide funding initiatives and workshops. He also is currently a co-executive secretary for the federal Interagency Committee on Human Nutrition Research, the NIH champion for the Global Nutrition Coordination Plan, a steering committee co-chair for the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research, and the NIH liaison to the American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on Nutrition and Section on Obesity. As a member of the ONR Senior Leadership Group, he helped develop the 2020–2030 Strategic Plan for NIH Nutrition Research.
Dr. Bremer is a board-certified internist, pediatrician, and pediatric endocrinologist. His areas of expertise include endocrine disorders, obesity, developmental origins of health and disease, and the role of nutrition in health throughout the life cycle.
Dr. Bremer joined the NIH in 2013, after holding academic positions at the University of California, Davis (2007–2010) and Vanderbilt University (2010–2013). Prior to his appointment as the ONR Director, he was the Chief of the Pediatric Growth and Nutrition Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He has received numerous honors, including election to the Society for Pediatric Research, multiple NIH Director’s Awards, and several teaching awards.
He received his B.S. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University; his M.A.S. in clinical research from the University of California, Davis; and his Ph.D. in pharmacology and his M.D. from Boston University. He completed his internal medicine and pediatric residencies at the Baylor College of Medicine and his pediatric endocrinology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.