Luke Timmerman is a biotech journalist, author, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and editor of Timmerman Report, a biotech newsletter, and author of "Hood: Trailblazer of the Genomics Age," a biography of automated DNA sequencing pioneer Leroy Hood. Luke was named one of the 100 most influential people in biotech in 2015 by Scientific American. He has a bachelor’s in journalism from the University of Wisconsin, and in the 2005-2006 academic year, he was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT. As a volunteer, his biotech community mountain climbing campaigns have raised $3.3 million for cancer research and the fight against poverty.