Amy Dockser Marcus

Amy Dockser Marcus is a health and science reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Her stories depict how scientific advances are transforming society and raising bioethical questions. She writes about patient-led drug development, citizen science, rare diseases, gene editing, and other topics. In 2005, Marcus won a Pulitzer Prize for a series about cancer survivors and the social, economic, and health challenges they face. Her latest book, We the Scientists: How A Daring Team of Parents and Doctors Forged A New Path for Medicine, was published in 2023. The book describes an innovative collaboration between parents of children with a lethal genetic disease and scientists working together to develop a drug. We the Scientists argues that we can all change science and create knowledge to help ourselves and those we love.