Michael Waldholz

Medical Science Writer and Media Consultant

Michael Waldholz most recently served for six years as managing editor at Bloomberg News/Businessweek,following his 25-year career as a writer, editor, and bureau chief at the Wall Street Journal. At Bloomberg, he was responsible for news coverage related to health care and science, including the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, health insurance, medical services, public health, and health policy. Mr. Waldholz is the author of the book Curing Cancer, and a co-author of Genome. He was awarded the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his stories on the breakthrough in AIDS medicines.

Participant In:

Synthetic and Systems Biology: Reinventing the Code of Life

Saturday, May 11th
2:30 - 4:30PM

Past Event

Synthetic biology, and its sister field systems biology, offers the means to reengineer DNA in ways (and at a pace) that Nature, in her evolutionary wisdom, never envisioned. Standing at the unique crossroads of biology, engineering, computer science and neuroscience, these emerging fields are working toward the development of novel drugs and energy sources, the… read more »