#  OEB Alumni Named MacArthur Fellow 

 





September 29, 2021

 

 

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 OEB alumni [Trevor Bedford](https://bedford.io/team/trevor-bedford/) (PhD '08) named a 2021 [MacArthur Fellow](https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2021/trevor-bedford) and awarded a 'genius grant.' Bedford will use the funds to build tools for tracking and forecasting the spread of viral pathogens such as those that cause influenza, Ebola, and COVID.

 Bedford was a graduate student in Professor Dan Hartl's lab and is currently a computational virologist and professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. While in ​the Hartl lab​ Trevor studied theoretical population genetics. Bedford cleverly applied these principles to ​the study of ​influenza and more recently SARS-Cov-2.​

 [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/arts/macarthur-genius-grant-2021.html)



 

 

 



 

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