Elodie Ghedin

Elodie Ghedin
Ghedin in 2016
Born1967
Alma materMcGill University
Université du Québec à Montréal
AwardsMacArthur Fellow
Scientific career
Fieldsparasitology, virology
InstitutionsJ. Craig Venter Institute
New York University
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Elodie Ghedin (born 1967) is a Canadian 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,[1] a 2012 Kavli Frontier of Science Fellow,[2] and a 2017 American Academy of Microbiology Fellow. [3] She also was Awarded the Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award in 2010. [4]

  1. ^ "MacArthur Fellows Program: Meet the 2011 Fellows". September 20, 2011. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  2. ^ "Elodie Ghedin | NYU School of Global Public Health". publichealth.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
  3. ^ "Molecular parasitologist and virologist Elodie Ghedin to speak at Grand Seminar - Newsroom - Loyola University Maryland". www.loyola.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
  4. ^ "Elodie Ghedin | NYU School of Global Public Health". publichealth.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-03.