Pardis Sabeti
Pardis Christine Sabeti (
In 2014, Sabeti and
Sabeti was named one of
Early life and education
Sabeti was born in 1975 in Tehran, Iran, to Nasrin and Parviz Sabeti. Her father came from a Baháʼí Faith family but never officially joined as a member[16][17] and was the deputy in SAVAK, Iran's intelligence agency, and a high ranking security official in Shah's regime.[18][19] She had a sister, Parisa, who was 2 years older.[18] 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.[18]
Her family fled Iran in October 1978, shortly before the Iranian Revolution, when Sabeti was two years old,[20] and found sanctuary in Florida.[18] Growing up in Orlando,[21] Sabeti wanted to be a flower-shop owner, novelist, or doctor.[22] However, she was most passionate about math.[22] Throughout her childhood and into college, Sabeti played competitive tennis.[23] Sabeti went to Trinity Preparatory School in Central Florida. In high school, she was a National Merit Scholar and participated on USA Today’s All-USA High School Academic Team.[18] She additionally attributes part of her inspiration towards medical science to the 1995 movie Outbreak.[24]
Sabeti went on to study biology at the
Career and research
As a graduate student at Oxford and
In February 2021 Sabeti co-authored a paper in Nature Communications on how a certain level of COVID-19 anti-bodies may provide lasting protection against the virus. The paper was based on blood samples provided voluntarily by 4300 employees of SpaceX crediting also its CEO Elon Musk.[37][38]
Sabeti is an annual participant in the Distinguished Lecture Series at the acclaimed
Awards and honors
Sabeti was the 2012 recipient of Smithsonian magazine's American Ingenuity Award in the Natural Sciences category. In 2014, she received the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science.[42] She is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer.
In addition to being named one of Time Magazine's Persons of the Year in 2014 (Ebola Fighters), Sabeti was listed as one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in 2015, and was awarded the Time 100 Impact Award in 2022.[43][9] Sabeti was on the list of the BBC's 100 Women announced on 23 November 2020.[44]
In 2015, Sabeti was selected for the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator award.[45] She has also received a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences,[46] a Packard Foundation award in Science and Engineering,[30] and an NIH Director's New Innovator Award,[31] and a L'Oréal for Women in Science Fellowship.
Sabeti was inducted in the National Academy of Medicine in 2020.[10]
Personal life
Sabeti is the lead singer and songwriter for the rock band Thousand Days.[11][12][13] In her spare time, Sabeti enjoys playing volleyball and participates in Harvard's summer volleyball league.[47]
On July 17, 2015, Sabeti suffered a near-fatal accident at a conference in Montana.[23] She was a passenger in an ATV that went over a cliff, and catapulted onto boulders. She shattered her pelvis and knees, and sustained a brain injury.[23] She completed rehab to return to teaching.[23]
Filmography
References
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- ^ "Person of the Year 2014: Read the Ebola Scientists' Stories". Time Magazine. 10 December 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ a b "Dr. Pardis Sabeti Is Changing How We Track Virus Outbreaks in Real Time". Time. 26 September 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- ^ a b "Dr. Pardis Sabeti is elected to the National Academy of Medicine". africa.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
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- ^ a b Kahn, Joseph (14 June 2008). "Infectious melodies". Boston.com. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
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- ^ "Against All Odds, Inside Statistics". Annenberg Learner. Annenberg Foundation. Archived from the original on 30 November 2015. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
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- ^ a b c d e f "Pardis Sabeti, the Rollerblading Rock Star Scientist of Harvard | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine". Smithsonianmag.com. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
- ^ "Dr. Pardis Sabeti is a member of PAAIA".
- ^ "Medical & Musical Journeys: An Interview with One of Time's Persons of the Year, Pardis Sabeti". The Huffington Post. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ^ a b "Three from MIT Named Rhodes, Marshall Scholars - The Tech". tech.mit.edu. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
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- ^ "Broad scientist Pardis Sabeti receives prestigious research awards | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard". www.broadinstitute.org. 14 June 2006. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
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- ^ a b "Packard Foundation Fellowship Directory: Pardis Sabeti". Retrieved 14 June 2012.
- ^ a b "Iranian Scientist Wins NIH 2009 Innovator Award". 24 October 2009. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
- ^ PMID 22174245.
- ^ Deen, Lango (25 July 2005). "One-on-One with Pardis Sabeti". Science Spectrum Online. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 27 July 2007.
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- ^ Sabeti, Pardis (4 February 2016). "How we'll fight the next deadly virus". www.ted.com. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
- ^ Bazelon, Emily (3 June 2020). "What Will College Be Like in the Fall?". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
- ^ Siliezar, Juan (13 May 2020). "Responding to this pandemic, preparing for the next". www.harvard.edu. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
- ^ "The Vilcek Foundation -". www.vilcek.org. Archived from the original on 25 June 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- ^ J. Craig Venter (16 April 2015), "The 100 Most Influential People: Pardis Sabeti", Time
- ^ "BBC 100 Women 2020: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. 23 November 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
- ^ "HHMI Selects 26 of the Nation's Top Biomedical Scientists". 19 May 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ Davis, Nicole (14 June 2006). "Broad scientist Pardis Sabeti receives prestigious research awards". Retrieved 12 October 2007.
- ^ "Pardis Sabeti Profile". The Rhodes Project.
- ^ "Against All Odds: Inside Statistics". Annenberg Learner.
External links
- Annie Reneau (4 November 2019). "Pardis Sabeti: Award-winning computational geneticist by day, indie rock singer by night". Upworthy.
- "Profile: Pardis Sabeti" on NOVA: Science Now, 2008 June
- Science meets MTV: Broad Institute geneticist and rock singer Pardis Sabeti merges lab culture with pop culture (Nature Network Boston, 2007 July 31)
- Thousand Days Photos (2007 May 10)
- Genetic Road Map Drawn for Tracing Route To Common Diseases
- Video. Profile: Pardis Sabeti. NOVA scienceNOW, 07.02.2008.
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund Annual Report Profile Archived 2019-12-14 at the Wayback Machine