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Name
  
Elodie Ghedin

Fields
  
Parasitology, Virology

Awards
  
MacArthur Fellowship

Education
  
McGill University


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Institutions
  
Institute for Genomic Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Alma mater
  
McGill University, Universite du Quebec a Montreal

Notable awards
  
MacArthur Fellowship

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Elodie Ghedin (born 1967) is a Canadian American parasitologist and virologist as well as a professor at the New York University Center for Genomics and Systems Biology. Her work focuses on the molecular biology and genomics of the parasites that cause diseases such as elephantiasis, and river blindness, and on the evolution of the influenza virus. She was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.

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Education

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Ghedin received two degrees from McGill University; a B.Sc. in Biology in 1989 and a Ph.D. focused on Molecular Parasitology in 1998. She received a M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1993. Between 1998 and 2000, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Career

Starting in 2000, she spent six years at the Institute for Genomic Research before joining the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2006 as an assistant professor in the Department of Computational and Systems Biology. She was formerly part of the J. Craig Venter Institute.

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