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Interview
Don’t ever lose yourself. Always keep coming back to your basics to find who you are.
About Pardis
- I was born in Iran and came to the U.S. when the 1979 revolution was happening.
- As a kid, I really loved both math and nature—looking back, it makes sense that I’d end up making a career in genetics.
- I earned my bachelor’s degree in biology from MIT and then went on to graduate school.
- I earned my master’s degree in human biology and doctorate in biological anthropology from Oxford University.
- I came back to the U.S. for medical school and earned my medical degree from Harvard University.
- I’ve since built my career in genomics and infectious disease.
- I currently work as a professor at Harvard University in the School of Public Health.
- I also run a lab at the Broad Institute, focused on computational genetics and experimental genomics as it pertains to human health and infectious disease.