Kevin Davies is the Editor-in-Chief of Bio•IT World, the monthly magazine covering information technology and life sciences published by IDG. He is the author of Cracking the Genome, an accessible and comprehensive account of the conclusion of the Human Genome Project.

Davies graduated from Oxford University and obtained in Ph.D in genetics from the University of London. After conducting postdoctoral research at MIT and Harvard Medical School, he joined the editorial staff of the prestigious British science journal Nature in 1990.

In 1992, Kevin founded Nature Genetics, the world’s leading genetics and genomics journal. He later served as the science editor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland, the largest medical philanthropy in the United States. Prior to launching Bio•IT World, Davies served as editor-in-chief of Cell Press.

Davies’ latest book, Cracking the Genome, has been translated into 15 languages. He is also the author (with Michael White) of Breakthrough: The Race to Find the Breast Cancer Gene.