Tim Caulfield wins 2015 Science in Society Book Award

AllerGen investigator Professor Timothy Caulfield of the University of Alberta has won the 2015 Science in Society General Book Award for his book Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash.

Prof. Caulfield was “genuinely surprised and thrilled” at the news, tweeting: “I’d love to celebrate this book award with Gwyneth Paltrow over some organic tea!”

“Some of the debunking in this book was supported by the wonderful allergy team at AllerGen,” further noted Caulfield, who is a researcher in AllerGen’s Patients, Policy and Public Health Enabling Platform.

AllerGen Board Director Dr. Pieter Cullis’s The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease are About to Change Forever was also among the six shortlisted titles for this award.

The award, sponsored by The Canadian Science Writers’ Association (CSWA), honours outstanding contributions in science writing. Prof. Caulfield will be presented with the award on 4 June 2016, at the CSWA’s The Science of Life conference.