Pardis Sabeti awarded Packard Fellowship

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has recently awarded Pardis Sabeti, an assistant professor in the Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University, its Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. The $875,000 fellowship will be paid over five years beginning in November. As one of 20 Packard Fellows selected, Sabeti will be invited to an annual conference in September 2009 to meet with other fellows, as well as with the advisory panel and members of the foundation’s board of trustees.