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In September 2021, he received a 7-year grant $9 million grant from the [[Howard Hughes Medical Institute]]. Later that same month he was named as part of that year's [[MacArthur Fellows Program]] class.<ref>{{cite web |last1=McCarthy |first1=Ellen |title=MacArthur will give 25 new fellows $625,000 each to pursue ‘high-risk, high-reward’ work | website=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/2021-macarthur-genius-grant-winners/2021/09/28/a2553a28-1cdc-11ec-a99a-5fea2b2da34b_story.html |access-date=28 September 2021 |date=2021-09-28}}</ref> |
In September 2021, he received a 7-year grant $9 million grant from the [[Howard Hughes Medical Institute]]. Later that same month he was named as part of that year's [[MacArthur Fellows Program]] class.<ref>{{cite web |last1=McCarthy |first1=Ellen |title=MacArthur will give 25 new fellows $625,000 each to pursue ‘high-risk, high-reward’ work | website=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/2021-macarthur-genius-grant-winners/2021/09/28/a2553a28-1cdc-11ec-a99a-5fea2b2da34b_story.html |access-date=28 September 2021 |date=2021-09-28}}</ref> |
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==Selected Publications== |
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James Hadfield, Colin Megill, Sidney M Bell, John Huddleston, Barney Potter, Charlton Callender, Pavel Sagulenko, Trevor Bedford, Richard A Neher, Nextstrain: real-time tracking of pathogen evolution, Bioinformatics, Volume 34, Issue 23, 01 December 2018, Pages 4121–4123, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty407 |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Trevor Bedford | |
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| Education | University of Chicago, Harvard |
| Known for | First warning of community spread of Covd in the United States |
| Medical career | |
| Profession | Computational virologist |
Trevor Bedford is an American computational virologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.[1]
He graduated the University of Chicago in June 2002 with a B.A. in Biological Sciences,[2] and graduated from Harvard in 2008 with a doctorate in Biology.
In 2020, he posted on Twitter about the first known community transmission of COVID-19 in the United States. That action was later cited as one of the actions that helped galvanize a rapid response to Covid on a national scale.[3]
In September 2021, he received a 7-year grant $9 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Later that same month he was named as part of that year's MacArthur Fellows Program class.[4]
Selected Publications
James Hadfield, Colin Megill, Sidney M Bell, John Huddleston, Barney Potter, Charlton Callender, Pavel Sagulenko, Trevor Bedford, Richard A Neher, Nextstrain: real-time tracking of pathogen evolution, Bioinformatics, Volume 34, Issue 23, 01 December 2018, Pages 4121–4123, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty407
References
- ^ "Trevor Bedford, Ph.D." Fred Hutch. January 30, 2020. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
- ^ "2004 Wolfram Alumni". Wolfram.
- ^ Doughton, Sandi (2020-06-01). "250,000 people now follow this Fred Hutch scientist on Twitter. We talk to this leading voice of the coronavirus pandemic". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
- ^ McCarthy, Ellen (2021-09-28). "MacArthur will give 25 new fellows $625,000 each to pursue 'high-risk, high-reward' work". The Washington Post. Retrieved 28 September 2021.