Luke Timmerman is the author of "Hood: Trailblazer of the Genomics Age." He is an award-winning journalist who has covered biotechnology for more than a decade. He is the founder and editor of Timmerman Report, a biotech newsletter. Timmerman is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT in 2005-2006. He was named by Scientific American as one of the 100 most influential people in biotech in 2015. He lives in Seattle with his wife and daughter.