Elissa Welle

Bio

As a recent graduate from the University of Michigan biomedical engienering PhD program, I took an unusual pivot. Instead of pursuing a postdoc, I showed up at the info session for the on-campus student newspaper, The Michigan Daily. I fell in love with journalism from the get-go. Within weeks at The Daily, I was an administration beat reporter and working on an investigative piece. Journaliam and it's quest for truth and truthtelling became my mission and I took my next step at the Detroit Free Press as a breaking news reporter. After months covering the latest from the streets of Detroit, I am eager to return to my first love, science, as a reporter and Mass Media Fellow at STAT News.

@ElissaWelle

Clips

• Enrollment in medical cannabis programs saw four-fold increase, study finds

• Women less likely than men to get authorship on scientific publications, analysis finds

• They blazed a trail with ‘brain-computer interfaces.’ Now they want to help shape the field’s future

• FDA approves first at-home therapy for skin repigmentation in vitiligo patients

• Four brain-computer interface companies you should watch (other than Neuralink)

• Daily Vitamin D supplements don’t lower risk of bone fractures, study finds

• A chip on the shoulder

• Monoclonal antibody treatment for malaria shows encouraging results

• Democrats’ TGIF moment, pathologists defend their turf, & Biogen’s back at the FDA’s doorstep

• The FDA stands by as the vaping industry flouts its orders