About Melissa Madden, Editor & Science Writer

Mel’s background in neuroscience and writing can be summed up neatly. She spent a lot of time thinking about thinking, then reading about reading, and now as an editor, she writes about writing.

Today, Mel has blended her curiosity, love of words, and diligent science background into a technical communications career.

Through several years in health care marketing and pharmaceutical PR, Mel steeped her editorial skills in brand strategy, client relations, and digital media. She has since consulted for NIH clients as a lead copyeditor, often adapting her expert attention to detail to scout efficiencies in project workflows. She applies art to science and science to art, such as wordsmithing with SEO or approaching style guides with the same careful technique it takes to translate research into real stories.

In 2023, Mel graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a Master’s in Science Writing, where she refined storytelling and journalism techniques. She balanced a thesis on oceanography alongside a full-time copyediting role in cancer research.

When she’s not pitching her own stories, Mel likes to read about coastal environments, the history of science, sci-fi, and evolutionary biology.