Gina Kolata is a science and medicine reporter for the New York Timesand has written over 1,000 articles for the paper in the past 11 years. Her articles have appeared in almost every section of the paper, including the front page. Kolata is also the author of three books, The Baby Doctors: Probing the Limits of Fetal Medicine, Sex in America(with Edward Laumann, John Gagnon, and Robert Michaels), and most recently, Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead.She also has won numerous awards for her writing. Kolata's career in journalism began when she joined Sciencemagazine in 1971, where she selected reviewers for manuscripts. She eventually became a writer and then senior writer. She also wrote for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines. At one time, she had three monthly columns: for GQ,for a German science magazine, Bild der Wissenschaft,and for the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.
Kolata earned her bachelor's degree in microbiology and her master's degree in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland. She studied molecular biology at M.I.T. in a Ph.D. program from 1969 to 1971, but left to pursue her writing career.
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