Editorial & Research Team
› Senior Editors
Karen Bernstein, Ph.D., Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Karen has been writing and publishing on biotechnology since 1987. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University, and a B.A. in politics and history from Brandeis University, where she now is a member of the Brandeis University Sciences Advisory Council. She also is on the board of trustees of the Keck Graduate Institute of the Applied Life Sciences. In 2005, the annual gathering of biotechnology chief executive officers at The Biotech Meeting in Laguna Niguel, Calif., inducted Karen into their Hall of Fame, citing her lifetime contribution to the biotech community. In 2007, Karen received a Special Recognition award at the American Liver Foundation's Salute to Excellence, honoring individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to biotechnology and medical innovation. |
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Jeff Cranmer, Managing Editor
Jeff serves as Managing Editor of both BioCentury, the Bernstein Report on BioBusiness, and BioCentury Extra. Prior to joining BioCentury in 2005, Jeff served as deputy copy chief of Institutional Investor and wrote and edited for the Rough Guides, for which he co-authored the Rough Guide to Laos. Jeff has a A.B. from Princeton University and an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. |
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Steve Edelson, Senior Editor
Steve serves as BioCentury's Executive Editor in the SciBX joint publishing venture with Nature Publishing Group. Since joining BioCentury in 1998, he has also been Editor of BioCentury Extra and Senior Writer responsible for financial markets coverage. Steve has an M.S. in biotechnology from Northwestern University, where he also received a B.A. in biochemistry. |
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Susan Schaeffer, Editor, BioCentury, the Bernstein Report on BioBusiness
Susan serves as Senior Editor in charge of Product Discovery & Development coverage. She was Managing Editor of BioCentury, the Bernstein Report on BioBusiness, and BioCentury Extra from 2004 through 2010. She joined BioCentury in 2003 after 10 years as a writer and editor in the consumer packaged goods sector, including work with international strategy consultants Kurt Salmon Associates. |
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Steve Usdin, Senior Editor
Steve has been Washington Editor of BioCentury since 1993, and has spent the past 20 years in the nation's capital covering political and policy issues affecting the life sciences sector. He also is the host of BioCentury This Week, BioCentury's weekly public affairs television program, as well as BioCentury Senior Editor responsible for coverage of social issues involving biotechnology. Steve’s reporting about biotechnology and biomedical policy has been cited in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, New Scientist and other publications. In 2012, the FDA Alumni Association named Steve the Harvey W. Wiley Lecturer, making him the first journalist to receive the Wiley Award. His book, “Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley,” was published in 2005 by Yale University Press. |
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Walter Yang, Director of Research
Walter, who directs BioCentury's editorial research effort, has been a Staff Writer and Research Analyst since joining the company in 1999. Walter previously worked as a researcher at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He holds a B.S. in molecular biology from the University of California, San Diego, and has a master's degree in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science. |
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› Senior Writers
Michael Flanagan, Senior Writer
Michael has been a writer and news editor at BioCentury since 2004. Prior to earning a B.S. in medical biology at Beloit College, Michael held internships at labs associated with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection; the University of Wisconsin Department of Animal Sciences; and the University of Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute and Clinics. |
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Tim Fulmer, Ph.D., Senior Writer
Tim, who has been writing for BioCentury since 2007, has 10 years of experience as a technical translator and writer, most recently in the Kyrgyz Republic and Russia. He holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Illinois and a B.S. in chemistry and biology from Indiana University. |
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Michael J. Haas, Senior Writer
Mike joined BioCentury in 2007 after gaining nearly 14 years of experience as an analytical chemist and mass spectrometry group leader at DuPont, DuPont Merck, DuPont Pharma and Bristol-Myers Squibb. He holds an M.Sc. in chemistry from the University of Toronto and a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Delaware. |
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Stacy Lawrence, Senior Writer
Stacy has been writing about the business of biotechnology and IT for more than a decade. Prior to joining BioCentury in 2006, Stacy contributed to Nature Biotechnology, MIT's Technology Review, Business 2.0, Wired, New Scientist, Red Herring and The Industry Standard. She holds a B.A. from New York University and an M.A. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. |
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Erin McCallister, Senior Writer
Erin joined BioCentury in 2008. She previously was a program officer at The Great Lakes Protection Fund and a biologist at Dow AgroSciences LLC. She holds an M.Sc. in environmental science and policy from the University of Chicago and a B.S. in biology from Purdue University. |
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Lev Osherovich, Ph.D., Senior Writer
Lev holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California, San Francisco. Before joining BioCentury in 2008, Lev held a Burroughs Wellcome Fund fellowship. |
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