Apoorva Mandavilli joined the Simons Foundation in 2007.

In her role as Executive Editor, she manages an interactive website for the foundation with the latest news and information on autism research.

For the five years prior, Apoorva was senior news editor for the leading biomedical journal Nature Medicine. She has also worked as US news editor of the online publication BioMedNet, as health editor of the website About.com, as a reporter for a weekly newspaper and dabbled in radio journalism. She has a master's in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and a second master's in science journalism from New York University. Her work has been featured in a variety of media outlets including Nature, Discover, Technology Review, Women's Health, O The Oprah Magazine and National Public Radio's Science Friday.