Elodie Ghedin, Ph.D.
SAGE Consultant

Dr. Ghedin is an expert in evolutionary microbiology and the molecular epidemiology of infectious disease. She is an assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Computational Biology and is a member of the Pitt Center for Vaccine Research.

The unifying theme in Dr. Ghedin’s research is the study of the complete genetic sequences of infectious agents. Her previous position was at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), in Rockville, Maryland, where for six years she worked in pathogen genomics. She led the Filaria Genome Project and oversaw the development of high throughput methods for virus detection and characterization. She also directed the TIGR viral genomics group, leading the Influenza Genome Project. Ongoing projects in Dr. Ghedin’s laboratory at Pitt include the study of drug resistance in influenza, the evolutionary dynamics of RNA viruses in co-infections, and genomic analyses of human parasitic worms.

Dr. Ghedin received her Ph.D. in molecular parasitology from McGill University in Canada in 1998 and did her postdoctoral research at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID/NIH) in the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases.