Steve Benowitz

Long-time science writer Steve Benowitz has worked for a range of universities, organizations and publications for decades. He spent the last dozen years at the National Institutes of Health, writing about research in cancer, genomics and rare diseases, among other topics, and managing media relations. Prior to that, he was a science writer at several academic institutions, including The Ohio State University, Penn State University and Thomas Jefferson University, and served as Director of Communications for the Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego.

As a journalist and freelance writer, he’s had bylines at Science News, The Scientist, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin. He has degrees in biology and journalism from Penn State University.