Pardis Sabeti
| Pardis C. Sabeti D.Phil. (Oxon), M.D. (Persian: دکتر پردیس ثابتی) | |
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| Born |
25 December 1975 Tehran, Iran |
| Fields |
Evolutionary genetics Genetic epidemiology Computational biology Biological anthropology Bioinformatics Medical genetics |
| Institutions |
Harvard University Broad Institute |
| Alma mater |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B) University of Oxford (M.Sc.), (D.Phil.) Harvard Medical School (M.D.) |
| Notable awards |
Rhodes Scholarship Richard Lounsbery Award by the National Academy of Sciences |
Pardis C. Sabeti (Persian: پردیس ثابتی) (born December 25, 1975 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-American computational biologist, medical geneticist and evolutionary geneticist, who developed a bioinformatic statistical method which identifies sections of the genome that have been subject to natural selection and an algorithm which explains the effects of genetics on the evolution of disease.
In 2014, Sabeti headed a group which used advanced genomic sequencing technology to identify a single point of infection from an animal reservoir to a human in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.RNA changes suggests that the first human infection was followed by exclusive human to human transmissions.
Sabeti is a full professor in the Center for Systems Biology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and on the faculty of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and is an institute member at the Broad Institute and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is the head of the Sabeti Lab.
Sabeti also is the current host of the educational series "Against All Odds: Inside Statistics" sponsored by Annenberg Learner. Her show is included in many high school statistics curriculums, such as the TJHSST Freshman Research Statistics 1 course.
Sabeti was born in 1975 in Tehran, Iran to Nancy and Parviz Sabeti. Her father was the deputy in SAVAK, Iran's intelligence agency, and a high ranking security official in Shah's regime. She had a sister, Parisa, who was 2 years older. Growing up, Parisa taught Pardis the course material she had learned the year before in school, leading Pardis to be "almost two years ahead of her classmates" when the school year began. Her family fled Iran in October 1978, shortly before the Iranian Revolution, when Sabeti was two years old, and found sanctuary in Florida. Growing up in Orlando, Sabeti wanted to be a flower-shop owner, novelist, or doctor. However, she was most passionate about math. Throughout her childhood and into college, Sabeti played competitive tennis.
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