Trevor Bedford (virologist)
Trevor Bedford is an American computational virologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. 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. 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. 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. Selected publications

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American virologists
MacArthur Fellows
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
University of Chicago alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people