Kevin Davies is an author, journal editor and publisher who specializes in genomics, personalized medicine and the Human Genome Project. Kevin is the author of five popular science books: Editing Humanity, The $1,000 Genome, Cracking the Genome, and (co-authored with Michael White) Breakthrough: The Race for the Breast Cancer Gene, and (co-author with Nobel laureate James Watson of DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution.

Kevin has held several prominent editorial and publishing positions, including Editor-in-Chief of Cell Press, the flagship journal division of Elsevier, and launch editor for Bio-IT World. Kevin is the executive editor of The CRISPR Journal and GEN Biotechnology, and the founding editor of Nature Genetics, the world’s leading genetics journal. Kevin has also worked at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society, where he was publisher of the Society’s weekly magazine Chemical & Engineering News.

Kevin studied biochemistry at the University of Oxford and took a Ph.D. in molecular genetics from the University of London, where he worked on mapping the cystic fibrosis gene. Kevin has held postdoctoral fellowships at MIT and Harvard Medical School.