Author

Kathleen Weston was a PhD student with Bart Barrell at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology from 1983 to 1986. After postdoctoral work with Michael Neuberger at the LMB and J Michael Bishop at the University of California, San Francisco, she set up her own lab at the Institute of Cancer Research, London.

In 2009, she quit active research to become a science writer. She has previously published Blue­Skies and Bench Space, a history of the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, and Engineering Nature’s Medicines: David Hopwood and the Streptomyces Revolution.