Pardis Sabeti

Pardis Sabeti is an M.D. Ph.D and graduate from MIT, Oxford and Harvard where she studied human evolution. She is also the lead singer and guitarist for the rock band Thousand Days. She is a Rhodes Scholar and was only the third woman ever to graduate Harvard Medical School with highest honors, summa cum laude. Her groundbreaking research on human evolution with advisor Eric Lander has been in the world's top journals, including Nature and Science. With already over 20 publications to her name, she is an expert in the study of recent human evolution and infectious disease. She is a co-investigator on project studying the malaria genome, and her team has just received a $2 million Gates Foundation Grant for their work. She has also received a Soros Fellowship, a L'Oreal For Women in Science Fellowship, a Burroughs Wellcome Career Award in Biomedical Sciences, a Damon Runyan Cancer Research Fellowship, and was named a Science Spectrum Magazine Trailblazer. She has also served on the MIT Board of Trustees and is a member of the Senior Common Room of Harvard University Winthrop House.