As long as I have a heartbeat, I’m fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I’ll just start over. Pardis Sabeti Read Quote
Let us not let the world be defined by the destruction wrought by one virus, but illuminated by billions of hearts and minds working in unity. Pardis Sabeti Read Quote
So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago. Pardis Sabeti Read Quote
The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That’s extraordinarily exhilarating. Pardis Sabeti Read Quote
Especially working in infectious disease, it’s very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it’s very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it’s very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find. Pardis Sabeti Read Quote
When I was working on my Ph.D., I developed a computer algorithm to look for rapid changes in populations’ DNA. Our DNA changes constantly over generations, but if certain changes spread through a population more quickly than others, they are probably the beneficial results of natural selection. This is the protection we give ourselves to survive. Pardis Sabeti Read Quote
I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family. Pardis Sabeti Read Quote
My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream. Pardis Sabeti Read Quote
My scientific work is much more practically minded – to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds. Pardis Sabeti Read Quote