Robert Bazell

Robert Bazell is Chief Science and Health Correspondent for NBC News.

Biography

Education

Bazell graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, in 1967 with a B.A. in biochemistry and Phi Beta Kappa honors.cite web
url = http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3687100/
title = Robert Bazell
accessdate = 2006-11-14
date = 2005-11-18
publisher = MSNBC.com] As an undergraduate, he wrote a science column called "Science for the People" for the Daily Californian.cite web
url = http://alumni.dailycal.org/newsletter/story.phtml?sid=54&eid=6&season=Fall&date=1999
title = East Coast alumni gather to reminisce about Daily Cal days
accessdate = 2006-11-14
publisher = The Daily Californian Education Foundation] Afterwards, Bazell traveled to England, where he studied biology at the University of Sussex in 1969 as part of his graduate work, before returning to Berkeley to complete his doctoral candidate degree in immunology.cite web
url = http://alumni.dailycal.org/about/board_profile/
title = The Education Foundation board of directors
accessdate = 2006-11-14
publisher = The Daily Californian Education Foundation]

Career

Bazell continued pursuing his dual interest in journalism and science by joining Science magazine in 1971 and writing for its News and Comment section. A year later, he left the publication to become a reporter for the New York Post. In 1976, he began his long career in broadcast journalism by joining WNBC in New York as a reporter before moving to NBC News.

At NBC, Bazell was one of the first network news correspondents to report on the emerging AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s. He continued to cover health and science issues for the network. In 1998, Bazell wrote and published, "HER-2: The Making of Herceptin, a Revolutionary Treatment for Breast Cancer", which chronicled the creation of Herceptin, a drug used to treat breast cancer; the book received a positive review from the New York Times.cite web
url = http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/20/reviews/980920.20henigt.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
title = A Drug Is Born
accessdate = 2006-11-15
last = Marantz Henig
first = Robin
date = 1998-09-20
publisher = The New York Times] The 2008 film, "Living Proof", is based on the book.

Awards

His extensive coverage in the 1980s of the nascent AIDS epidemic, which included reports from the United States, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and South America, earned him the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award and the Maggie Award from Planned Parenthood. He also garnered two Emmys for his reports on the human brain. In 1993, Bazell was honored with the George Foster Peabody Award for his service to broadcast journalism.

Personal

Bazell and his wife, Margot Weinshel, reside in New York. He has three children: Rebecca, Josh and Stephanie.

Books

Bazell, Robert. "HER-2: The Making of Herceptin, a Revolutionary Treatment for Breast Cancer". Random House, October 1998. ISBN 0-609-00099-3

References