Erin is a San Francisco-based health-tech reporter at STAT, where she focuses on Silicon Valley power players like Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft and their ambitions in health. Before joining STAT, Erin spent five years as a health and science reporter at Business Insider, where she wrote the definitive account of what went wrong at the microbiome startup uBiome leading to an FBI probe and the company's eventual bankruptcy. Got a tip? Direct message Erin on Twitter @erbrod or text her from a non-work number on the encrypted messaging platform Signal at +1 (818) 679-0610.