Elie Dolgin is a science journalist in Somerville, Massachusetts. A former news editor at STAT, Nature Medicine and The Scientist, his work appears regularly in Science, Nature, the New York Times and elsewhere. Elie received a bachelor’s degree (in biology) from McGill University and earned a PhD (in evolutionary genetics) from the University of Edinburgh. His 2021 feature article for Nature, “The tangled history of mRNA vaccines,” has been referenced extensively in the scientific literature, in national newspaper stories and by award selection committees.