Apoorva Mandavilli is director of SFARI.org, the leading website for autism research news. She conceived and launched this website as editorially independent from its funder, the Simons Foundation. Prior to that, she was senior news editor of the prominent biomedical journal Nature Medicine. During her stint there, she reported from Asia, Africa, Europe and the U.S., primarily about infectious diseases and neuroscience, and wrote an opinion column for Nature’s news website. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program in New York University's journalism department. Her work has been featured in a variety of media outlets, including Nature, Slate, Discover, Technology Review and National Public Radio's Science Friday.