Editors

BioWorld's Publisher, Lynn Yoffee, leads a team of journalists from around the world that produces daily insider intelligence on key business, scientific, clinical and regulatory news covering the development of innovative human therapeutics and medical technologies. Under her direction, BioWorld has won dozens of awards for excellence in journalism from the Specialized Information Publishing Association. During her tenure with BioWorld (1994-1997, 2007-present), she has guided the development of special series and investigative reports on key industry trends ranging from the lack of diversity in clinical trials to the burgeoning biosimilars sector and to the explosion of digital health. Yoffee started her career as a newspaper reporter and later moved into health care and medical science publishing for B2B and consumer audiences. She is also a co-host of the BioWorld Insider Podcast.

Jennifer Boggs joined the BioWorld group in 2004 as a staff writer after working for several years in newspapers. She was promoted to the position of assistant managing editor in 2008 and in 2011 was appointed as BioWorld's managing editor. Boggs is the driving force behind BioWorld's daily news cycle, coordinating coverage of breaking news, analysis, conferences and special series. Importantly, as the volume of news has increased over the years, she keeps the editorial team focused on the most innovative therapeutics in development.

Annette Boyle joined BioWorld MedTech in early 2019 and now serves as editor. She has covered biotech and the business of medicine for 15 years, providing in-depth reports and daily coverage for a range of U.S.-based B2B publications. At BioWorld, she offers insight into clinical trials, new product releases, the medical technology industry and other topics in women’s health, diabetes, cardiology, bioelectronic medicine, oncology, orthopedics and other segments.

Managing editor, Karen Carey is also BioWorld's senior analyst who oversees all biopharma and medical technology data, and writes about financial, deal-making, clinical, scientific and regulatory industry trends. Her analytics incorporate two decades of data gathered from industry publications, experts, conferences and documents, and provide historical perspectives and visual insights of where the industries are heading. She first began working for BioWorld as a staff writer in 1999.

Holland Johnson is the managing editor of BioWorld MedTech. He has more than 15 years of editorial and reporting experience, including the last 12 years in the newsletter industry covering medical technology, home health care and clinical advances in oncology and women's health. Prior to that, Johnson was a beat reporter for the Athens Observer.

Anette Breindl, PhD, is the managing editor of BioWorld Science. She has been with BioWorld since 2004, after starting her career in science communications at Atkins + Associates, a precursor firm to Canale Communications. She has also worked as a freelance writer for U.S. and German publications and co-authored several peer-reviewed papers. Breindl earned her PhD from the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg, Germany. Breindl also teaches science communications at the University at Albany, where she is a visiting scholar.

Mark McCarty has served as the regulatory editor for BioWorld MedTech since 2006. He covers FDA's regulation and enforcement activities for devices and diagnostics, but also provides in-depth insight into Medicare and private payer coverage and reimbursement. McCarty's portfolio at BioWorld MedTech includes medical device advisory committees, congressional hearings and medical specialty society meetings. Previously McCarty served as the managing editor for two publications by the Washington Information Source (WIS), Inspection Monitor and Warning Letter Bulletin, and was a contributing writer for WIS's Validation Times.

Mari Serebrov joined BioWorld in 2011 as regulatory editor, following a long career in the media, academia and a state agency, which gave her first-hand experience in dealing with state and federal regulations. In her writing for newspapers, radio and television, she covered health care from many angles. At BioWorld, she provides in-depth coverage of drug pricing, patents, biosimilars and other regulatory issues for BioWorld.

Michelle Tracy, ELS, is the managing editor of BioWorld Science and Clarivate’s international, peer-reviewed medical journals, Drugs of the Future (focused on product information on new compounds in development) and Drugs of Today (focused on information on new products entering the market). She has worked at Clarivate primarily as an editor since joining the company in 1997. Tracy became a board-certified Editor in the Life Sciences (ELS) in 2016.

Xavi Bofill joined Clarivate in 2007, first working as an editor in Clarivate’s Biomarkers and Precision Medicine groups, which develop content for Cortellis. Bofill, who has a master's degree in microbiology, joined the BioWorld Science team as writer and editor in 2017.

 

Writers

Helen Albert, BSc in genetics and MSc in human evolution and behavior, has been a BioWorld Science contributor since 2022. She has written for a variety of publications including New Scientist, The BMJ, Nature, Chemistry World, Biodesigned, Forbes and Inside Precision Medicine. Previously, she was editor-in-chief at Labiotech.

Shani Alexander, based in London, started writing for BioWorld MedTech in 2023. She has worked as a journalist for more than 12 years in London and Singapore for a range of online publications. She has a BA in Journalism an MSc in International Relations.

Bernard Banga, of Paris, has contributed to BioWorld MedTech team since 2015. For more than 20 years, he has covered the medical device industry in France and the rest of the European Union.

Meg Bryant is a staff writer for BioWorld MedTech. She has spent more than 30 years covering medical devices, pharmaceuticals and, more recently, digital health, both from a regulatory and business perspective. Before joining Clarivate Analytics in May 2019, she held editorial and reporting positions at FDAnews, Faulkner & Gray and F-D-C Reports, where she helped to launch the Beige Sheet, covering reimbursement policy. Bryant's articles have appeared in Healthcare Dive, New Physician and The Washington Post, among other publications.

Marian (YoonJee) Chu is a staff writer for BioWorld based in Seoul, South Korea, covering the Asia Pacific region. Previously, Chu worked as a writer for the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, at the Medical Observer where she covered research in cardiovascular disease and for the Korea Biomedical Review where she covered the broader pharmaceutical industry with a focus on the top firms in Korea. A bilingual medical journalist, Chu double majored in English literature and business administration at Korea University.

Coia Dulsat is a staff writer for BioWorld Science. She joined Clarivate in 2006 as part of the scientific content team in the publications department. Before joining BioWorld Science, she focused on identifying relevant information on trends in the pharmaceutical industry from scientific literature, conference attendance and press releases to contribute to news services and commissioning for the peer-reviewed journals Drugs of the Future and Drugs of Today. She has a BSc in pharmacy from the University of Barcelona.

Mar de Miguel, PhD in biology and MS in journalism, is a staff writer for BioWorld Science. She joined Clarivate in July 2022, after 10 years of experience in different laboratories of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology (University of California, Los Angeles, University of Alcalá, National Centre for Cancer Research - Spain, National Centre for Cardiovascular Research - Spain). In 2017, she started a new career at El Mundo newspaper in Spain. There, she built her skills as a journalist, working for the next four years as a freelance writer for the science and health section.

David Godkin, of Toronto, has been a science and medical technologies writer for more than 20 years. In that time, he has written on emerging medical technologies in every province across Canada. His focus is on the science underpinning the development of medical devices, their practical application in health care and business strategies for bringing them to the global marketplace. He began writing for BioWorld MedTech in 2003.

Sergio Held is a Colombian-German journalist based out of Bogota, Colombia. He has been writing for BioWorld and BioWorld MedTech since 2014. He previously lived in Hong Kong and Barcelona. Held also produces radio and TV content from Bogota for national and international media outlets.

Vinod Kamalakannan is BioWorld's analyst who manages numerous databases of information focused on biopharma and medical technology deals, financings, product approvals and clinical results. He received both bachelor's and master's degrees in biochemistry from the University of Madras. A Clarivate employee since 2012 currently based in Chennai, India, he began working for BioWorld in 2018, taking on the database management role in early 2019.

Lee Landenberger is a longtime health care journalist, having been a reporter, editor and executive in Ohio, Florida and Georgia. He won awards from the Associated Press, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Specialized Information Publishers Association. He has also overseen continuing education programs for health care practitioners, including physicians and nurses. Landenberger covers the development of biopharmaceuticals and the businesses that back the therapeutic candidates for BioWorld. He is also a co-host of the BioWorld Insider Podcast.

Amanda Lanier joined the BioWorld team in 2004. She currently serves as staff writer for BioWorld, focusing on data analysis and trends, and has previously been a managing editor and production editor. Prior to joining BioWorld, Lanier worked as a features writer. She has a BA in communications from Oglethorpe University.

Harini Mathavan joined the BioWorld team as staff briefs writer in May 2021. Prior to BioWorld, Mathavan worked as a research analyst on Clarivate’s Cortellis Drug Discovery Intelligence team and, before that she was with Clarivate Derwent Innovation as a reimbursement scientific editor covering medical devices. Mathavan earned a bachelor of pharmacy and post-graduate certificate in clinical trial management.

Nuala Moran has been writing about science and technology for more than 30 years. Before joining BioWorld in 1996 she worked as deputy editor of Computer Weekly, managing editor of Nature, and innovation editor of the Independent on Sunday. She was also a regular contributor to the Financial Times between 1992 and 2003. In 1995 Moran was named as U.K. Technology Journalist of the Year and in 2016 won the Euroscience European Science Writer senior award. She contributes to BioWorld, BioWorld MedTech and BioWorld Science.

Subhasree Nag is a writer for BioWorld Science and a regional solution consultant for the life sciences and scholarly research division at Clarivate. She completed her PhD at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and post-doctoral training at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. A pharmacologist and toxicologist by training, she has more than eight years of research experience in anticancer drug discovery and pharmacokinetic modeling. At BioWorld Science, she contributes articles related to early-stage discovery and preclinical studies.

Brian Orelli has written for BioWorld since 2010. After earning his PhD from the University of Chicago, Orelli went on to a post-doc at the Ludwig Institute where he soon realized that hearing about other people’s work during lab meeting was the highlight of his week. He transitioned out of the lab and into writing where he gets to learn daily about new technologies.

Staff writer Randy Osborne's journalism career began in 1974, the year after he graduated high school, and includes hard news, features and investigative reporting for many general interest and alternative newspapers and magazines, as well as radio and television. He began covering biotech in 1997 at BioWorld, where he has held positions from staff writer to managing editor. He previously worked for Deloitte and Elsevier.

W. Todd Penberthy, PhD (biochemistry) started reporting science news for BioWorld in 2018. Previously, he was a professor directing independent biomedical research before transitioning to writing in 2012. In addition to his work for BioWorld, Penberthy’s writing focus has been on continuing medical education with course development directed to physicians focused on guidelines and advances in clinical and biotechnology medicine. He regularly attends medical and scientific conferences.

Alfred Romann has 20 years of writing experience. His writing for BioWorld and BioWorld MedTech is focused on Asia and Latin America. He has worked across the Americas, Africa and Asia. Romann has written extensively for international publications and multinational organizations on issues of economics, finance and development.

Tamra Sami, based in Perth, Australia, has been writing about the biopharmaceutical and medical device industries for more than 17 years. She has expertise in Asia and emerging markets and international regulatory issues. She also covers product development, clinical trials and commercial strategy for both medical devices and biopharmaceuticals. Sami has more than 25 years of writing and editing experience and has covered a range of other industries including holistic health, transportation, wireless communications and travel. She writes for both BioWorld and BioWorld MedTech.

Based in Dublin, Cormac Sheridan has been writing about all aspects of the European and global biotechnology industry for more than 25 years, during which time he has been a correspondent for BioWorld and a regular contributor to Nature Biotechnology and many other publications. He has been a guest lecturer on the B.Sc. Genetics program at University College Cork (UCC) for more than 15 years.

 

Production team

Andrea Applegate is the production editor for BioWorld Science. She is also responsible for posting social media content and producing reprints. Prior to joining the team in 2016, she worked for the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences as an editor in the communications office.

Ann Marie Griffith joined BioWorld in 2017 as a production editor. She has worked in publishing for more than 25 years, starting as a features editor at a community newspaper in Pennsylvania before becoming the real estate editor at The Virginian-Pilot, a metro daily in Norfolk, Va. More recently, she coordinated content for two specialty magazines in Richmond, Va., and served as a development editor for an educational publishing company. She received a BA in communications from Penn State University.

Greg Kaplan joined BioWorld in 2023 as the senior production editor for BioWorld MedTech and BioWorld Asia. He previously had been on digital production and editorial teams at the Institute for Scientific Information and Wolters-Kluwer, as well as Rodale, Active, Future, and Outside. Greg has an MLS and MSIS from Drexel University, in Philadelphia.