Egon Anderson Ozer, MD PhD, is a physician-scientist in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Director of the Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution (CPGME) in the Institute for Global Health. His work focuses on genomic surveillance of microbial pathogens, most recently the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which he uses to characterize the evolution of genetic variants and their impacts on transmission and disease.