SHORT BIO
 David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning, best-selling author of seven books published in 19 languages; he is a journalist and a television, radio and film producer and correspondent. His most recent book is the bestseller Experimental Man: What one man's body reveals about his future, your health, and our toxic world. He is the Chief Correspondent of public radio's Biotech Nation; and a columnist for Fortune. He is the Director of the Center of Life Science Policy at UC Berkeley. He has been a commentator on NPR's Morning Edition, and a contributing editor for Wired, Discover and Conde Nast Portfolio. David writes for The New York Times, National Geographic, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many other publications. He is a former special correspondent and producer for ABC Nightline and a correspondent for NOVA's ScienceNOW! He has won numerous awards including the Magazine Story of the Year from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His articles have twice been cited in nominations for National Magazine Awards, and his work has appeared twice in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. He is a graduate of Vassar College and now lives in San Francisco.
LONG BIO
David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning, best-selling author of seven books and numerous essays, articles and short stories; and a television, radio and film producer and correspondent. He writes columns for Fortune and for The Fiscal Times; he is also the Chief Correspondent for public radio's "Biotech Nation". He writes for the New York Times, Wired, Discover, National Geographic, and many other publications. At UC Berkeley he is the Director of the Center for Life Science Policy. David's most recent book is the bestselling Experimental Man: What one man's body reveals about his future, your health, and our toxic world (Wiley). His previous book was Masterminds: Genius, DNA and the Quest to Rewrite Life (Harper Perennial). He wrote the international bestseller Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year (Harper-Collins/Avon), published in 19 languages, and a bestseller in 14 countries.
David has been a Contributing Editor and columnist for Conde Nast Portfolio, and a Contributing Editor for Wired, Discover and MIT Technology Review; he has been a longtime commentator for NPR's "Morning Edition", and a special correspondent and producer for ABC's Nightline and 20/20. He has been a correspondent for NOVA's ScienceNow!, and a producer for Discovery Television. He has written for Harper' s, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, Outside, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Washington Post Book World, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The New York Times, among others
In 2003, David won the prestigious
Magazine Story of the Year Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His articles have twice been cited in nominations for National Magazine Awards, and his work has appeared twice in
The Best American Science and Nature Writing.
David is the Founder and Editorial Director of the
BioAgenda Institute, an independent, non-profit program of events and educational initiatives that discusses and analyzes crucial issues in life sciences -- which is being folded into the new Center for Life Science Policy at UC Berkeley. He has been the host of the annual BioAgenda Summit.
David's other books include the bestselling Pedaling the Ends of the Earth (Simon & Schuster), about his bicycle expedition around the world, and
Hernando Soto: A Savage Quest in the Americas, called "an astonishing tour de force" by the New York Times Book Review. He wrote
Residents: The Perils and Promise of Educating Young Doctors (Scribner) and
Cape to Cairo: An African Odyssey (Grove Atlantic). His fiction has appeared in two anthologies. He has taught creative writing at Stanford University. He works at the
San Francisco Writer's Grotto, and lives in San Francisco.
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RECENT NEWS
New Experimental Man Site
Technology Review debuts EM site with articles, videos, blogs... More
David's Full Genome Sequenced
All of his DNA, thanks to Complete Genomics and the Personal Genome Project. More.
PHP Summit in SF
On April 29, David hosted 50 life science leaders in SF about how to hasten the pace of personalized health. More.
New PHP Website Launched
The Personalized Health Project has a new website with videos, study, projects, and more.
David Authors New Study
Kauffman Foundation publishes "The Personalized Health Project", an 82-page study. More.
New Column
Innovation Nation: 100 Best (and Worst) Ideas, coming soon in The Fiscal Times. More.
The Making Of The Manifesto
Kauffman Foundation's 2011 "Thoughtbook" Publishes
"The Making of the Personalized Health Manifesto"
David launches a Manifesto
On October 13 the Personalized Health Manifesto is launched, sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation
Press Release
Manifesto
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Join us in calling for a new age of healthcare - 500 names by December 31!
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Experimental Man Best of 2009
Library Journal names book a
Best Sci-Tech Book
5-Part Series in The Fiscal Times
New website runs a series on
end-of-life issues.
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