Elodie Ghedin is a Canadian parasitologist and a virologist as well as an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Education
Ghedin received two degrees from McGill University. A Bachelor of Science in Biology in 1989 and a Doctor of Philosophy focused on Molecular Parasitology in 1998. She received a Master of Science in Environmental Sciences from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1993.
Between 1998 and 2000, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Career
Her work focuses on the molecular biology of the parasites that cause diseases such as leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, elephantiasis, and river blindness. She was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow Starting in 2000, she spent six years at the Institute for Genomic Research before joining the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2006 as an assistant professor in the Department of Computational and Systems Biology. She was formerly part of the J. Craig Venter Institute.