Linden Hu, M.D. is the Paul and Elaine Chervinsky Professor of Immunology and the Vice Dean for Research at Tufts University School of Medicine.  He has been involved in Lyme research for over 20 years.  His laboratory has been involved in clinical research as well as laboratory studies of the bacteria and the immunological responses to it.  Called by some the “crazy man” of Lyme disease, he is leading NIH funded studies to investigate feeding live ticks on people as a diagnostic test and releasing genetically altered viruses to prevent disease in the animals in the wild.  His laboratory works with leading pharmaceutical companies in the development of vaccines and other approaches to prevent human Lyme disease.   He is an avid (but bad) ultimate frisbee player and would like to see Lyme disease eradicated so he can feel safe when retrieving errant discs that go into the woods.

Fun fact:  Linden has an alternative career as tick food and has used his arm to feed over 100 ticks.

Read more about Dr. Hu at: https://medicine.tufts.edu/faculty/linden-hu