Kevin Davies, Ph.D., is the author of Cracking the Genome, an inside account of the race for the Human Genome Project hailed by one reviewer as "A rollicking good tale about an enduring intellectual monument." The book has been translated into 15 languages. A frequent commentator on genome issues in print, television, and radio, Davies has delivered lectures on the genome project and its impact on medicine over the past two years in Tokyo , Beijing , Delhi , Madrid , London , Dublin , Boston , and San Francisco . Davies is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Bio o IT World, a monthly magazine covering technology in the life sciences, published by IDG. Davies holds an M.A. in biochemistry from Oxford University and a in genetics from the University of London . After research stints at MIT and Harvard Medical School , he joined the editorial staff of the prestigious British science magazine Nature in 1990. He is the founding editor of Nature Genetics, the world's leading genetics journal. He later served as the science editor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase , Maryland , the largest medical philanthropy in the United States , and editor-in-chief of Cell Press. Davies is also the author (with Michael White) of Breakthrough: The Race to Find the Breast Cancer Gene. Davies lives with his wife and two children in Lexington , Massachusetts .
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