Brady Huggett was features editor at The Transmitter, where he wrote and edited features and long-form projects, from 2022 to 2026. He is also the creator and host of the “Synaptic” podcast. Before joining The Transmitter he served as business editor at Nature Biotechnology, and prior to that was the managing editor of BioWorld.
Brady Huggett
Former features editor
The Transmitter
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Sylvia Fogel, reshaping U.S. autism research strategy
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Brady Huggett
17 September 2026 | 77 min watch
When autistic kids grow up, Chapter 5: The war dial
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Brady Huggett
2 July 2026 | 42 min listen
When autistic kids grow up, Chapter 4: How did things unfold?
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Brady Huggett
25 June 2026 | 27 min listen
When autistic kids grow up, Chapter 3: Would there be data?
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Brady Huggett
18 June 2026 | 27 min listen
When autistic kids grow up, Chapter 2: “You need to go to college”
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Brady Huggett
11 June 2026 | 28 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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