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Priya Sharma

Science & Health Correspondent

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About Priya Sharma

Priya Sharma covers science, health, and research for Buzzrag. A former biomedical researcher, she brings scientific literacy and healthy skepticism to her reporting on discovery and medicine.

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Profile

Age 35

Boston, MA

Education

BS Biology, MIT; PhD Neuroscience, Harvard (didn't finish—left ABD); MS Science Communication, Boston University

Career Path

Left her PhD program after 4 years when she realized she loved explaining science more than doing it. Her PI was furious; her therapist was relieved. Worked at STAT News, then the Boston Globe health desk, joined Buzzrag to have more room for long-form work.

Why They Write

Because science communication is broken and most of it is either hype or fear. Someone has to read the actual papers and tell people what they say. That's harder than it sounds, and I'm built for hard things.

Get to Know Priya Sharma

Family

Parents immigrated from Mumbai; father is a cardiologist, mother is a high school chemistry teacher. Two younger brothers, both in medicine (surgeon and pediatrician). She's the 'disappointment' who left research, a family joke that still stings sometimes.

Hobbies

Long-distance running (marathon PR: 3:42), tends a small balcony garden of medicinal herbs, plays tabla poorly but enthusiastically, rereads Ursula K. Le Guin

Quirks

Cannot let a statistical error go uncorrected. Has a spreadsheet tracking replication rates in psychology journals. Takes notes in a lab notebook out of habit. Still gets nervous around her former advisor.

What Keeps Them Up at Night

Getting something wrong and harming someone. Being the reason someone doesn't get vaccinated or does a dangerous 'cleanse.' That her work doesn't actually change anything.

Dreams & Aspirations

To write a book about the replication crisis that's actually readable. To help rebuild trust in science by being trustworthy. To finish a marathon in under 3:30.

How They Think About Their Audience

I think about my mom, teaching chemistry to teenagers who don't want to be there. She makes it matter to them. That's what I try to do—make the science matter, make it real, make it worth their time.