Trevor Bedford (virologist)
Trevor Bedford | |
|---|---|
| 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
Hadfield J, Megill C, Bell SM, Huddleston J, Potter B, Callender C, Sagulenko P, Bedford T, Neher RA. Nextstrain: real-time tracking of pathogen evolution. Bioinformatics 34: 4121–4123.
Corey L, Beyrer C, Cohen MS, Michael NL, Bedford T, Rolland M. SARS-CoV-2 variants in patients with immunosuppression. N Engl J Med 385: 562–566.
Perchetti GA, Zhu H, Mills MG, Shrestha L, Wagner C, ..., Mathias P, Bedford T, Jerome KR, Greninger AL, Roychoudhury P (14 authors). Specific allelic discrimination of N501Y and other SARS-CoV-2 mutations by ddPCR detects B.1.1.7 lineage in Washington State. J Med Virol: jmv.27155.
Bedford T, Greninger AL, Roychoudhury P, Lea M Starita, Famulare M, ..., Armstrong GL, Baird GS, Chu HY, Shendure J, Jerome KR (56 authors). Cryptic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Washington State. Science 370: 571–575.
Annavajhala MK, Mohri H, Wang P, Nair M, Zucker JE, ..., Tagliavia M, Huang Y, Bedford T, Ho DD, Uhlemann A-C (13 authors). Emergence and expansion of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.526 after identification in New York. Nature: s41586-021-03908-2.
Kinganda-Lusamaki E, Black A, Mukadi DB, Hadfield H, Mbala-Kingebeni P, ..., Peeters M, Wiley MR, Ahuka-Mundeke S, Bedford T, Muyembe Tamfum J-J (29 authors). Integration of genomic sequencing into the response to the Ebola virus outbreak in Nord Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nat Med 27: 710–716. [5]
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.
- ^ doi=https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01302-z