Anjana Ahuja

Profile: Full name: Anjana Ahuja Area of interest: Science, medicine, social affairs Journals/Organisation: Prospect | The Times | The Daily Telegraph Email: anjana.ahuja@thetimes.co.uk Personal website: Website: Blog: Representation: http://www.sciencefactory.co.uk/content/authors.php?aid=125 Networks: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/anjana-ahuja/33/72a/41a

Biography: About: Education: Imperial College: Space Physics, PhD (analysed data from the Ulysses mission to the Sun's magnetic poles) Career: Joined The Times as a graduate trainee in 1994, was a writer and science columnist until June 2010, now a freelance Current position/role: freelance writer / science commentator also writes/written for: Prospect magazine (articles) Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Spiked survey response: Key challenges for the next generation. Open Access Now: Journalists speak out Broadcast media: Video: Appears regularly on radio and often invited to chair debates related to the public understanding of science IMDb Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: EMMA award for Best Print Journalism, 1998; twice shortlisted for Best Feature Writer, National Science Writing Awards Scoops: Other:

Books & Debate: Latest work: Speaking/Appearances: Organised Times' Science Lectures (1998/2002) with the Royal Institute, these were designed to spotlight junior researchers capable of becoming experts in their own field Spoke in the debate: What's The Greatest Innovation? - 6th June, 2007 - organised by Spiked Debate:

All Journals: No regular column

Articles: Surely it’s only transhuman nature - Freezing body parts for life after death is monstrously egotistical - 11th June 2013 A giant leap for womankind - By writing about her double mastectomy, Angelina Jolie has normalised the idea of lifesaving surgery and flagged up the need to make genetic testing affordable - 15th May 2013 The chances are high that this bird flu won’t fly - The H7N9 bird flu virus has hurdled the species barrier and infected and killed humans in China. But we shouldn't panic - 3rd May 2013 Three parents? Five parents? All that really matters is healthy babies - For families touched by the miseries of mitochondrial disease, help may be at hand - 22nd March 2013 School governors unpaid? Quite right - let's keep it that way - The Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw is wrong. This job is for volunteers only - says one volunteer school governor - 28th February 2013 The dangers of a desire for bodily perfection - The death of Claire Squires during the London Marathon suggests that using food or drink supplements to improve performance can be as risky as taking steroids - 1st February 2013 Got the flu? Google will find out long before your GP - Twitter, Facebook and other social media have the potential to weed out bad hospitals and predict public health crises - 25th January 2013 A spark of insight into the mystery of autism - New research offers hope for sufferers of the confounding neurological disorder autism - 17th January 2013 The norovirus is the season’s least welcome guest - The onset of cold weather which drives people indoors creates the perfect breeding ground for norovirus to thrive - 14th December 2012 Jailing the seismic seven will cause tremors beyond Italy - Criminalising people for making a difficult call would render life unworkable - 25th October 2012

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