Charles Piller, an Investigative Correspondent for Science Magazine, has received more than 40 honors or awards from American Association for the Advancement of Science/Kavli Foundation, National Institute of Health Care Management, Society of Professional Journalists, National Academies/Eric and Wendy Schmidt, Los Angeles Press Club, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Gerald Loeb Foundation and UCLA, Western Publications Association, First Amendment Coalition, California State University, Computer Press Association, American Society of Business Press Editors, California Newspaper Publishers Association, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, and other organizations. His work has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize nine times by STAT, the Los Angeles Times and The Sacramento Bee.

In addition to Doctored, Piller authored The Fail-Safe Society: Community Defiance and the End of American Technological Optimism (Basic Books/HarperCollins, hardcover; University of California Press, paperback), and Gene Wars: Military Control Over the New Genetic Technologies (with Keith R. Yamamoto; Beech Tree Books/William Morrow, also published in Germany and Finland).

Previously Piller worked as an investigative reporter for STAT, the Los Angeles Times, and The Sacramento Bee. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Nation, and other leading newspapers, magazines, and websites, and has been reported on by all forms of media worldwide. Piller’s books and articles have influenced debates and policies on Alzheimer’s research, investing goals by charitable foundations, global health programs, biological weapons, forensic science, information security, the treatment of prison inmates, administration of the National Guard, regulation of experiments with human subjects, and other topics. He has reported from 22 nations on four continents.

Piller has given hundreds of media interviews and has spoken on Alzheimer’s disease, criminal justice, arms control, technology, investment policies, global health, investigative methods, and other topics at conferences and leading universities in the United States, China, New Zealand, and Europe. He has testified before U.S. Senate committees regarding the Freedom of Information Act, and workplace electronic surveillance. Piller lives in Oakland, California with his wife, Surry Bunnell.