Bay Area Lyme Foundation Selects National Winners of the 2022 Emerging Leader Awards Aimed at Making Lyme Disease Easy to Diagnose and Simple to Cure
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Tuesday, August 9, 2022
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Both of the award winners will utilize biological samples from the Lyme Disease Biobank , a program of Bay Area Lyme Foundation lead by principal investigator Liz Horn, PhD, MBI, to collect well-characterized human tissue, blood, and urine specimens to accelerate research for Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections.
Key Points:
- Both of the award winners will utilize biological samples from the Lyme Disease Biobank , a program of Bay Area Lyme Foundation lead by principal investigator Liz Horn, PhD, MBI, to collect well-characterized human tissue, blood, and urine specimens to accelerate research for Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections.
- Developing sensitive and specific diagnostics for acute and persistent Lyme disease should be the highest priority in Lyme disease research.
- Bay Area Lyme Foundation , a national organization committed to making Lyme disease easy to diagnose and simple to cure, is the leading public not-for-profit sponsor of innovative Lyme disease research in the US.A 501c3 charity based in Silicon Valley, Bay Area Lyme Foundation collaborates with world-class scientists and institutions to accelerate medical breakthroughs for Lyme disease.
- The Lyme Disease Biobank (LDB), a program of the Bay Area Lyme Foundation, is working to accelerate research of Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections.