Emily Willingham

Emily Jane Willingham
Born1968 (age 55–56)
Waco, Texas, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin
Known forScientific skepticism, work on endocrine disruptors
Children3
AwardsUT-Austin department of biological sciences professional development award, 1998
Scientific career
FieldsEndocrinology, urology
InstitutionsUCSF, Texas State University, St. Edward's University[1][2]
ThesisEmbryonic exposure to low-dose pesticides : dose response and effects on growth in the hatching red-eared slider turtle (2001)

Emily Jane Willingham (born 1968) is an American journalist and scientist. Her writing focuses on neuroscience, genetics, psychology, health and medicine, and occasionally on evolution and ecology.[3]

She is the joint recipient with David Robert Grimes of the 2014 John Maddox Prize, awarded by science charity Sense about Science, for standing up for science in the face of personal attacks.[4]

  1. ^ Willingham, Emily; Baskin, Laurence S. (2007). "Candidate genes and their response to environmental agents in the etiology of hypospadias". Nature Clinical Practice Urology. 4 (5). Nature Publishing Group: 270–279. doi:10.1038/ncpuro0783. PMID 17483812. S2CID 19932650.
  2. ^ "Research Fellows Trained". University of California, San Francisco. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  3. ^ "About". www.emilywillinghamphd.com. Retrieved 2018-11-24.
  4. ^ 2014 John Maddox Prize Archived 2014-10-28 at the Wayback Machine, Sense about Science