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Ali Rahnavard - Assistant Professor, George Washington University
Ali Rahnavard is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at George Washington University. His lab work on molecular epidemiology and dynamics of infectious diseases particularly investigates the SARS-CoV-2 dynamics and host response supported by an NSF RAPID and an NSF Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Awards. His lab develops computational approaches and software to analyze omics data, especially microbiome and metabolites. Prior to George Washington University, Dr. Rahnavard did a postdoc on the human microbiome and metabolites at the Broad Institute and Harvard.