Brady Huggett is features editor at The Transmitter, where he writes and edits features and long-form projects. He is also the creator and host of the “Synaptic” podcast. Before joining The Transmitter in 2022, he served as business editor at Nature Biotechnology, and prior to that was the managing editor of BioWorld.
Brady Huggett
Features editor
The Transmitter
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Timothy Ryan on his pivotal switch from studying particle physics to decoding synaptic transmission
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Brady Huggett
1 October 2024 | 70 min listen
Biosensors and being fearless with Lin Tian
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Brady Huggett
1 September 2024 | 62 min listen
Male and female brains, Proust, and Catherine Dulac
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Brady Huggett
1 August 2024 | 81 min listen
Diagnosing autism and teaching neurodiversity with So Hyun “Sophy” Kim
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Brady Huggett
1 July 2024 | 67 min listen
Education
- M.A. in creative writing, The New School
- M.A. in journalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- B.S. in biology from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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