Trevor Bedford
EducationUniversity of Chicago, Harvard
Known forFirst warning of community spread of COVID-19 in the United States
Medical career
ProfessionComputational virologist

Trevor Bedford is an American computational virologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.[1]

Education and career

Bedford graduated with a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago in 2002 and obtained a Ph.D in Biology from Harvard University in 2008.[1]

In 2020, he posted on Twitter about the first known community transmission of COVID-19 in the United States. That action was later cited as one of the actions that helped galvanize a rapid response to Covid on a national scale.[2]

In September 2021, he received a 7-year $9 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Later that same month, he was named as part of that year's MacArthur Fellows Program class.[3]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ a b "Trevor Bedford, Ph.D." Fred Hutch. January 30, 2020. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
  2. ^ Doughton, Sandi (June 1, 2020). "250,000 people now follow this Fred Hutch scientist on Twitter. We talk to this leading voice of the coronavirus pandemic". The Seattle Times. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
  3. ^ McCarthy, Ellen (September 28, 2021). "MacArthur will give 25 new fellows $625,000 each to pursue 'high-risk, high-reward' work". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
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