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Dr Elizabeth Finkel, who holds a PhD in biochemistry, has been a research scientist at the University of California, and is an award winning Melbourne-based writer and journalist.

Dr Finkel has written for Science, Lancet, Mature Medicine, New Scientist, The Age and has broadcast for ABC Radio National. Her awards include finalist in the Eureka Award for Medical Journalism, winning the Michael Daley Award for best radio feature broadcast, as well as a number of MBP science journalism awards.

In January 2012 her second book, “The Genome Generations,” was described by The Canberra Times as “science writing of the highest order.” The Weekend Australian described her as a “scientist with a journalists genes.”