Michael Bellomo

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Michael Bellomo is a prolific science and technology writer, with 17 books to his name (and 1 ghost-written work). He is published in non-fiction fields, including technology, test prep, business operations, and ‘mass market’ science. Bellomo’s books have been published internationally in Italian, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Korean, German, Russian, and Chinese.

He is the co-author of the Amazon bestseller 'Microbe: Are We Ready For The Next Plague?', a chilling work on how vulnerable we are to new, exotic diseases and acts of biological terrorism. The book is now a required text for the upper division course, Emerging Infectious Diseases at California State University, Sacramento. The book has generated controversy as it takes the contrarian viewpoint that flu strain HN51 (also known as avian flu) is not as great a threat as the media makes it out to be.

Michael Bellomo is an active member of the International Association of Stem Cell Researchers. His latest book, "The Stem Cell Divide" is a no-nonsense, balanced look into the kaleidoscope of scientific research, religious dogma, and medical hope surrounding the field of stem cell science research. In December 2006, he was one of three featured authors who lectured at Harvard University on the potential of embryonic stem cell technology.

Currently he serves with Baxter Bioscience, a Fortune 500 company dedicated to the manufacture of new plasma-based medicines and therapies. He lives in Los Angeles, California.