About the Author
Michael Ransom is the author of the mystery/thriller debut entitled The Ripper Gene (Forge), and the highly anticipated upcoming biomedical thriller THE APOCALYPSE GENE.
He's a pharmaceutical researcher and biomedical scientist currently working on COVID-19 and a variety of other disease areas, He is a full professor on the adjunct faculty within the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. His scientific research has been covered in The New York Times, and he has authored more than 100 book chapters, invited reviews and primary research articles in the fields of genomics, translational science and biomarker research. He has also edited two textbooks in the life sciences.
As an author, he is a member of several writer's associations including the Mystery Writers of America (MWA), International Thriller Writers (ITW), and the Author's Guild (AG).
Because of his background in modern molecular biology, his fiction is suffused with cutting edge science and genetics. His debut novel, The Ripper Gene, introduces readers to Dr. Lucas Madden, a neuroscientist-turned-FBI profiler who applies a controversial genetic approach to behavioral profiling during a serial killer investigation in the Mississippi Delta.
His upcoming biomedical thriller THE APOCALYPSE GENE is ripped from today's headlines and follows the young graduate student Ethan WIlde who has made a life-changing... and possibly fatal...discovery about the human genome that will expose a decades-long multinational government cover-up and threaten the terrifying aspirations of a private firm's unconscionable plot to hold the world hostage...with a needle.