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Pardis Sabeti '93

Pardis Sabeti '93 Sabeti achieved great academic accomplishments even before entering the workforce. She was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard Medical School. Sabeti’s research involves working in a lab to study and investigate various infectious diseases: malaria, Lassa fever, Ebola, and cholera. Sabeti and her team develop and use algorithms to gather data from these microbes in an attempt to understand how they behave, why they cause mortalities, and how to help better defend ourselves against them.


Outside of her rigorous scientific studies, Sabeti competes in a volleyball league composed of different scientists and exhibits her vocal talent as the lead singer of “Thousand Days,” a band that has produced a CD, “Radiate.” This has played on over 70 radio stations across the country, receiving positive reviews from critics. While visiting Nigeria, Sabeti recorded a song with Nigerian collaborators. Spending time with her family is important to Sabeti; she enjoys the radiant Boston summers with her husband John Rinn, also a Harvard professor.