Nicholas Wade on NY Times Reader Response to the HGP
  Nicholas Wade     Biography    
Recorded: 30 May 2003

We do have some responses. Not as much as you would think and partly they don’t make it easy for readers to get in touch with us. So readers can guess what my email is and send it in but I don’t—but there’s only readers who have email and really want to get in touch you tend to do so. A few people write letters, but not very many.

Nicholas Wade received a B.A. in natural sciences from King's College in Cambridge (1964). He was deputy editor of (italics) Nature magazine in London and then became that journal's Washington correspondent. He joined (italics) Science magazine in Washington as a reporter and later moved to (italics)The New York Times, where he has been an editorial writer, concentrating his writing on issues of defense, space, science, medicine, technology, genetics, molecular biology, the environment, and public policy, a science reporter, and science editor. He is the author or coauthor of several books including (italics) LIFE SCRIPT: How The Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine And Enhance Your Health (2002).

Covering the Human Genome Project for the (italics) New York Times since 1990, Wade has interviewed Watson on various occasions and visited Cold Spring Harbor for the annual Genome symposium.