Brady Huggett.

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

Photo collage of Tempest McDonald.
When autistic kids grow up Microphone

When autistic kids grow up, Chapter 2: “You need to go to college”

By Brady Huggett
11 June 2026 | 28 min listen
Photo collage of Tempest McDonald.
When autistic kids grow up Microphone

When autistic kids grow up, Chapter 1: Those people

By Brady Huggett
4 June 2026 | 24 min listen
When Autistic Kids Grow Up.
When autistic kids grow up Microphone

When autistic kids grow up

By Brady Huggett
20 May 2026 | 2 min listen
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
Illustrated portrait of Damien Fair.
Synaptic Microphone

Stimulating the brain with Damien Fair

By Brady Huggett
3 February 2025 | 68 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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