Dr. Kevin Davies is a British journal editor and author specializing in genomics. He is the founding editor of Nature Genetics and currently Executive Editor of The CRISPR Journal. He is the author (or co-author) of six books, including Cracking the Genome and Editing Humanity: The Crispr Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing. He will be discussing his newly published biography of sickle cell disease (SCD), entitled "Curved Air" (Harvard University Press). The book offers a sweeping history of SCD, the world's most famous genetic mutation, and explores the recent successes in treating the disease using gene therapy and CRISPR/DNA surgery, against a backdrop of systemic racism that continues to impact patient care more than a century after the disease was first documented.
