David Edwards, PhD is a Scientific Programming and Communications Fellow at the Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research (CEDAR) center at Oregon Health & Science University, where he is developing a core infrastructure for writing support at CEDAR. Along with assisting CEDAR with scientific communication and writing education, he started the “Share Our Science” initiative to maximize knowledge-sharing from CEDAR’s research projects. This initiative is a collaborative institutional commitment to open science, and focuses on identifying relevant publishing platforms for CEDAR researchers to use and share their discoveries. In 2018, he earned his PhD in Cancer Biology at Oregon Health & Science University. Before that, he earned Bachelor’s degrees in Creative Writing and in Molecular Biosciences/Biotechnology from Arizona State University.