Luke Timmerman
Luke Timmerman is the author of "Hood: Trailblazer of the Genomics Age," a biography of automated DNA sequencing pioneer Leroy Hood. Timmerman is the founder of Timmerman Report, a biotech newsletter, and a contributing writer for Forbes. Timmerman has a bachelor’s in journalism from the University of Wisconsin, and was awarded a.... more
Luke Timmerman is the author of "Hood: Trailblazer of the Genomics Age," a biography of automated DNA sequencing pioneer Leroy Hood. Timmerman is the founder of Timmerman Report, a biotech newsletter, and a contributing writer for Forbes. Timmerman has a bachelor’s in journalism from the University of Wisconsin, and was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT. In 2015, Scientific American named him one of the 100 most influential people in biotech.
Timmerman was thrilled to have Forbes contributor David Shaywitz call Hood a "must-read," along with The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
In his spare time, Timmerman enjoys running, mountaineering, fantasy baseball, and watching the Wisconsin Badgers and Green Bay Packers. He lives in Seattle with his wife and daughter.