Hristio Boytchev is a Berlin-based investigative health and science journalist with an additional focus on data driven analysis.

He contributes regularly as an investigative reporter to the British Medical Journal and leads the project “Follow the Grant”, a data driven tool for investigating conflicts of interest. He was selected as the “European Science Journalist of the Year 2021” by the European Federation for Science Journalism.

Hristio Boytchev

Basic information

Name
Hristio Boytchev
Expertise
Health
Country
Germany
City
Berlin
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Supported projects

The Fossil Fuel Ties of Medical Research

  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Healthcare

BERLIN / LONDON - The team of journalists investigated the financial ties between the fossil fuel industry and medical research. The data analysis reveals over 180 medical articles published in the last six years acknowledging funding and 1000 featuring authors affiliated with fossil fuel companies.  

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Behind The Pledge - How EU money is spent for Covid19 drugs

  • Healthcare
  • Industry

BRUSSELS - How did we come to pay gold for a drug whose effectiveness has not been proven? This is the story of Remdesivir, a drug developed by the American company Gilead Sciences with large public funds to combat Ebola, and in July approved by the European Medicines Agency with "conditional authorisation" as the first antiviral against Covid 19.

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