Lisa Melton is Nature Biotechnology’s news editor and is, of course, obsessed by all things biotech. But she previously spent seven years at the Novartis Foundation in London reporting on biomedical topics and, prior to that, writing for the Welcome Trust. Her stories have been published in BBC Focus, Nature, New Scientist, The Times, and Scientific American. She is guest lecturer at the University of West England's MSC in Science Communication course. Lisa has a PhD in immunology, and adores opera.