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.

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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