Katie Minns is a freelance science writer with a PhD in biomedical sciences and more than a decade of experience in the life sciences sector. Her laboratory roles include working as a microbiologist in a contract research organization and as a healthcare scientist team leader at Public Health England. She expanded her knowledge of the industry while working for the Minister for Life Sciences and in the UK government’s Life Sciences Organisation. Katie moved into science communication in 2021, starting as an in-house scientific content writer at a company specializing in genomic analysis, before transitioning to a freelance basis in 2024.