Multimillion-dollar grant to MIT funds research into acute and chronic Lyme disease
Family’s health trauma translates into mission to solve a chronic health problem suffered by more than a million Americans.
The Resilience Project—Lyme Campaign
A campaign to find people that may inform new prevention or treatment strategies for Lyme disease.
At Mount Sinai, he is a leader of the Resilience Project, an effort to learn how some people are able avoid disease despite having significant risk factors.
Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director of PersonalGenomes.org.
He works with Resilience Project’s research team to discover new protective factors and advance our understanding of human health.
Attacking Lyme Disease From All Angles
$5 million gift aims to propel Lyme disease research and education
The gift will fund the following areas:
The neuroimmunology track ($2 million) will attempt to elucidate how the bacterial pathogen behind Lyme disease may influence the interplay between immunity, inflammation and the nervous system during infection.
The mechanisms of Lyme disease track ($2 million) will study the fundamental processes that underlie the development of disease following infection with disease-causing bacteria (most commonly, Borrelia burgdorferi, and more rarely other organisms).
The education track ($1 million) will support efforts to empower the lay public through improved public understanding and prevention of the disease.
Irv Weissman + MICHAL TAL : Exploring Lyme's Immunological Response
Left to right: Laughing Bear Torrez Dulgeroff (Stanford), Michal Caspi Tal (Stanford), Lara Myers (RML), Irving Weissman (Stanford) and Kim Hasenkrug (RML) outside Weissman’s ranch home.
Credit: NIAID
Michael Snyder: Wearables to detect Lyme disease
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