KEVIN DAVIES PhD

I'm the author of the new book CURVED AIR: A Biography of Sickle Cell Anemia and the Quest to Cure the First Molecular Disease. The book is published by Harvard University Press (Sept 2026).

I'm the Executive Editor of The CRISPR Journal, editorial director of GEN magazine, and the founding editor of Nature Genetics and Bio-IT World.

In 2017, I won a Guggenheim Fellowship to write a book on CRISPR and genome editing. EDITING HUMANITY: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era in Genome Editing (Pegasus Books, 2020).

My other books include:

THE $1,000 GENOME (Free Press, 2010) -- the revolution in next-gen sequencing and personal genomics.

CRACKING THE GENOME (Free Press, 2001) -- published in the UK as THE SEQUENCE and translated into 15 languages;

BREAKTHROUGH (1995, with Michael White); the race to discover BRCA1.

I'm a co-author of DNA: The Story of the Genetics Revolution, with Jim Watson and Andrew Berry (2017, Knopf).

I served as technical consultant on the 2014 film Decoding Annie Parker. (I'm in the credits, right under Aaron Paul's guitar coach.)

I'm represented by Jen Gates at Aevitas Creative.

Contact: davieskev [at] gmail dot com