Dr Kat Arney is the founder and Chief Creative Officer of First Create The Media - a multi award-winning science communications strategy and content agency specialising in life sciences. We enable world-changing bioscience innovations to become reality by helping the brightest pioneers and initiatives grab the attention of the people who can make it happen.Kat is an expert science communicator with two decades of experience. She's a multi award-winning science writer, public speaker and broadcaster, and author of the popular genetics books Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding how our genes work, How to Code a Human, and Rebel Cell: Cancer, evolution and the science of life. She has fronted numerous radio shows and podcasts, including Genetics Unzipped and The Suffrage Science podcast: How women are changing science, the series Ingenious on BBC Radio 4, telling stories about our genes, and Bug in the System, a three part flagship documentary series about the past, present and future of cancer.Kat holds a first class degree in Natural Sciences and a PhD from Cambridge University, specialising in biomedical science, genetics and mammalian development. After leaving the lab, Kat spent 12 years in the science communications team at Cancer Research UK. As science communications manager, she co-founded the charity's award-winning Science Blog and podcast, provided comms and media training for researchers and staff, and was a principal media spokesperson on national and international TV and radio.
