Brady Huggett

Features editor
The Transmitter

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.

From this contributor

Raphael Yuste leaning on a bench in his lab. A red filter colors the scene.

Neural networks

Releasing the Hydra with Rafael Yuste

By Brady Huggett, Shaena Montanari

4 April 2025 | 10 min read

Synaptic

Stimulating the brain with Damien Fair

By Brady Huggett

3 February 2025 | 68 min listen

Synaptic

Season 2 of ‘Synaptic’ draws to a close

By Brady Huggett

1 November 2024 | 2 min listen

Synaptic

Timothy Ryan on his pivotal switch from studying particle physics to decoding synaptic transmission

By Brady Huggett

1 October 2024 | 70 min listen

Synaptic

Biosensors and being fearless with Lin Tian

By Brady Huggett

1 September 2024 | 62 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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