Luba Vikhanski is a science journalist and writer. A graduate of New York University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, she works as a science writer at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her work has been published in the New York Times among other important outlets. She is the author of Immunity: How Elie Metchnikoff Changed the Course of Modern Medicine and In Search of the Lost Cord: Solving the Mystery of Spinal Cord Regeneration.