John Medina
Developmental molecular biologist and author
John Medina is a developmental molecular biologist who wrote Brain Rules, a New York Times bestseller.
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About John Medina
John Medina is a developmental molecular biologist. His research centers on the genes behind human brain development and on the genetics of psychiatric disorders. For most of his working life he has been a research consultant, mostly for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, on mental health research. He was the founding director of the Talaris Research Institute and ran it until 2006. He has also directed the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research at Seattle Pacific University, and he holds an affiliate professorship in bioengineering at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He once contributed a column called "Molecules of the Mind" to Psychiatric Times. Brain Rules is a New York Times bestseller. Medina also wrote Brain Rules for Baby.