Tufts Lyme Disease Initiative investigators receive $7 million in new grants to combat Lyme disease
Tufts Lyme Disease Initiative investigators Sam Telford and Linden Hu have received a new grant award from NIAID to partner with Dr. Kim Lewis at Northeastern on developing narrowly targeted antibiotics against the Lyme bacterium for use in eradicating disease in the wild.
Dr. Tanja Petnicki-Ocwieja has received an award from the Global Lyme Alliance to study the effects of oxidative stress and ozone on priming the immune response and modulating the effects of infection with the Lyme disease bacterium
Dr. Linden Hu has received a new award from NIAID to study how repeated exposure to the Lyme bacterium causes immune tolerance to the organism and how genetic mutations can cause “breaks” in tolerance leading to prolonged inflammation.
