Some personal news

Some personal news. After 18.5 amazing years at Forbes, I am leaving. In January, I’ll start as Senior Writer, Medicine at Stat News.

This is biology’s century. We are beginning to understand the very nature of the stuff that makes us us, and it is awesome and beautiful, dangerous and unfair, lifesaving and exhilarating. There are no bigger stories to tell about anything. And we are going to tell them bigger than you can believe at Stat News.

Some of these stories will be free to read. Some of them won’t. But if you care about biotechnology or medicine, you will need to read them all. Here’s a 20% discount. You can subscribe to Stat Plus at www.statnews.com/subscribe. Use the code HERPER19.

I want to thank my colleagues at Forbes for an amazing run. I’ll miss you all terribly, especially Ellie Kincaid and Michela Tindera.

It’s been an amazing experience. I’ve written or co-written 17 cover stories, and thousands of articles I’m so proud of. I’ve watched revolutions and, as people on the stock market like to euphemistically call them, corrections. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. (It's been a while -- see the photo from back then.)

Thank you to Michael Noer for hiring me all those years ago, and being my sometime editor and always friend. Thank you, Robert Langreth for being the best mentor anyone ever had. Thanks, Dan Bigman for the years in the trenches, Lewis D'vorkin for demonstrating the power of vision, and Randall Lane for teaching me to always go big. I’ve forgotten people. There will be more thank yous to come.

I have a bit more to do, at Forbes over the next few weeks. I’ll start at Stat early next year.