QnAs with Pardis Sabeti.

Pardis Sabeti received the 2017 National Academy of Sciences Richard Lounsbery Award in biology for her groundbreaking work in computational genetics and global health. A professor at Harvard University, the Broad Institute, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Sabeti has developed computational methods to detect genetic variants under natural selection, and has applied these methods to both humans and pathogens. She has conducted pioneering genomic analyses of Ebola and Lassa viruses, and her work played an important role in tracking Ebola transmission during the 2014 outbreak in West Africa. Sabeti recently spoke with PNAS about her efforts to combat emerging diseases.