Martin J. Blaser

Martin J. Blaser, MD, is the author of Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues. He has studied the role of bacteria in human disease for more than thirty years. Blaser is the director of the Human Microbiome Program at New York University, and was formerly the president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and has had major advisory roles at the National Institutes of Health. He lives in New York City.

Human Health Is in the Hands of Bacteria

In the beginning, there were single-cell bacteria. They were the only life on earth for billions of years, then larger cells evolved, then multicellular organisms, and then plants and animals. But the bacteria never went...

By Martin J. Blaser October 24, 2019

Antibiotics Overload Is Endangering Our Children

Nearly a century of overprescribing means that our kids may be growing up without the bacteria their bodies need.

By Martin J. Blaser May 9, 2014