mignon@welltopia.com
Mignon Fogarty is a freelance science, biotechnology, and medical writer. She writes for many life science companies, and her work has appeared in publications including The Scientist, Preclinica, and Genomics & Proteomics. She was the editorial director and executive producer of GeneticHealth.com, and she is the producer and co-host of the podcast Absolute Science.

Consumer-Oriented Science and Medical Writing

Selected Samples:

Stanford Cancer Center consumer web site

Cholesterol drugs may prevent cancer, and a whole lot more

Genetic testing: Just a click away

Why people engage in risky behavior

Biotech booms overseas

Genes can cause attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD)

Alzheimer's Disease: Genetic testing for people without symptoms


Short health teasers


Eat It Today: Nutrition Series


Cigarettes and addiction, a three-part series:
    Depending on cigarettes, counting on science
    Can science make cigarettes safer?
    Smoking cessation: what helps, what doesn't


Technical Writing


Selected Samples:

Individually tailored multiple sclerosis vaccines

Riding the antisense rollercoaster

NSAIDs and Alzheimer's disease: Novel roles for some familiar drugs


Systems biology and beyond Future Drug Discovery, .2 (1): Supplement, 2002

Fogarty M., “Genetic testing, Alzheimer’s disease, and long-term care insurance.” Genet Test. 1999;3(1):133-7.

Ghostwritten papers:

Fogarty, P. “Optimizing the production of animal models for target and lead validation.” Targets. 2002, 1, 109-116.

De La Vega, F.M., Dailey, D., Ziegle, J., Williams, J., Madden, D., Gilbert D.A.. “New generation pharmacogenomic tools: a SNP linkage disequilibrium map, validated SNP assay resource, and high-throughput instrumentation system for large-scale genetic studies.” Biotechniques. 2002 Jun;Suppl:48-50, 52, 54.