Pardis Sabeti

Dr. Sabeti is a computational geneticist with expertise developing algorithms to detect genetic signatures of adaption in humans and the microbial organisms that infect humans. Her lab’s key research areas include: (1) Developing analytical methods to detect and investigate evolution in the genomes of humans and other species (2) Examining host and viral genetic factors driving disease susceptibility to the devastating and deadly diseases in West Africa, Ebola Virus Disease and Lassa hemorrhagic fever. (3) Investigating the genomes of microbes, including Lassa virus, Ebola virus, Plasmodium falciparum malaria, Vibrio cholera, and Mycobacterioum tuberculosis to help in the development of intervention strategies. (4) Determining the microbial cause of undiagnosed acute febrile illness. Dr. Sabeti completed her undergraduate degree at MIT, her graduate work at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and her medical degree summa cum laude from Harvard Medical School as a Soros Fellow. Dr. Sabeti is a World Economic Forum (WEF) Young Global Leader and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, and was named a TIME magazine ‘Person of the Year’ as one of the Ebola fighters. Her awards included the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for Natural Science, the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, the NIH Innovator Award, the Packard Fellowship, and an Ellis Island Medal of Honor. She has served on the MIT Board of Trustees and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Women in Science, Medicine, and Engineering. Dr. Sabeti is also the lead singer and co-song writer of the rock band Thousand Days. Dr. Sabeti is one of the co-founders and a shareholder of SHERLOCK Biosciences, a company dedicated to improving health worldwide through accurate, fast and affordable testing. She is on the board and a shareholder of Danaher Corporation, the parent company of both Cepheid and IDT. She is a scientific advisory board member and shareholder of NextGen Jane, a women's health company launched by two lab alumni.

Companies

• Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Systems Biology Harvard University (2016)
• Institute Member Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (2016)
• Professor, Immunology and Infectious Diseases Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2016)
• Investigator Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2015)
• Associate Professor Harvard University (2012)
• Associate Professor Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics - CCDD (2012)
• Senior Associate Member Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (2008)
• Assistant Professor Harvard University (2008 — 2012)

Education

• M.D., Medicine Harvard Medical School (2000 - 2006)
• D.Phil., Biological Anthropology University of Oxford (1998 - 2002)
• M.Sc. University of Oxford (1997 — 1998)
• B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1993 — 1997)
• High School Diploma Trinity Preparatory School