Wendy Northcutt

Wendy Northcutt (born September 17, 1963) is an author of a series of books on the Darwin Awards and the creator of the DarwinAwards.com website.  According to the short biographies in her books and on her website, Northcutt completed a degree in molecular biology at Berkeley, worked in a neuroscience research lab at Stanford, and later managed the protein purification group at a biotech startup developing cancer and diabetes therapeutics.