Steve Usdin
Washington Editor, BioCentury

The original Washington Editor of BioCentury, Steve has spent the past 16 years covering political and policy issues affecting the life sciences sector in Washington. His beat includes the FDA, Congress, White House and Supreme Court. He also is the Senior Editor responsible for coverage of social issues involving biotechnology. Steve’s reporting about biotechnology and biomedical policy have been cited in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, New Scientist and other publications. He has been invited to address numerous conferences, including: the annual BIO CEO & Investor Conference; Convergence Life Sciences Leaders Forum; BIO annual meeting; American Enterprise Institute meetings; Center for Medicine in the Public Interest public policy meetings; the National Organization for Rare Disorders Corporate Council; and the BIO Europe annual conference.

Steve also has traveled and reported extensively on the intersection of science, technology and policy, as well as on intelligence and national security issues, in Japan, Russia and the former Soviet Union, India, China and Western Europe. A scholar of Cold War espionage history, he has been invited to address conferences organized by the National Security Agency and the Woodrow Wilson center on intelligence issues, and is the author of "Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley," published in 2005 by Yale University Press.