Dr. Martin J. Blaser has studied the role of bacteria in human disease for over thirty years. He is the director of the Human Microbiome Program at New York University. He founded the Bellevue Literary Review and has been featured in numerous publications, including the New Yorker, Nature, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. His more than one hundred media appearances include The Today Show, Good Morning America, NPR, The O'Reilly Factor, and CNN. Martin lives in New York City.