Filing since June 2023
Senior Health Reporter
Anya Rao
Covers the next-generation molecules — and the gray market of research peptides that keeps showing up in the reader mail.
- Bylines on file
- 89
- Filing since
- June 2023
- On the masthead
- 3 years
- Filed from
- Washington, DC
- Desk
- Peptides & Beyond desk (lead writer)
- Pronouns
- she / her
Anya came to journalism from the bench. She spent most of her PhD on incretin receptor structural biology, and most of her first year at Wellness Wire unlearning how to write like a scientist. She has a line of readers who email her structural questions no one else in the newsroom wants.
Before Wellness Wire she was a staff writer at STAT News, where she covered the same drug class from a different angle: the regulatory and business side of a molecule moving through Phase III.
Half of my job is translating a Kd constant into a sentence that does not condescend to the reader. It takes longer than anyone thinks. — Rao, in conversation with the newsroom