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The 221b Foundation: Pardis Sabeti

Sep 16, 2022

Pardis Sabeti has joined the board of directors of The 221b Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Sherlock Biosciences to bring CRISPR-based diagnostics to underserved populations. She is a professor at the Center for Systems Biology and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and the Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease at the Harvard School of Public Health. In addition, she is a member of the Broad Institute and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

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