David Stipp

science writer

David Stipp has written about science,medicine, the environment and biotech since 1982 for *The Wall Street Journal*, *Fortune*, *Salon*, *Science* and other publications. He led *Fortune’s* science and medical coverage from 1995 to 2005 as a senior writer, and from 1982 to 1995 covered science and medicine as a staff reporter at *The Wall Street Journal*. In 1998 he won a National Association of Science Writer’s award for best magazine article, and in 1993-4 served as a Knight Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the past decade, he has written extensively about the study of aging, including a recently launched book, *The Youth Pill: Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution*.