Jacob Lemieux, M.D. is a fellow in Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and a researcher in Dr. Pardis Sabeti’s laboratory at the Broad Institute where he has been examining the genetic basis for phenotypic variation in Borrelia burgdorferi and Babesia microti.  He has also been developing CRISPR based detection systems for tick borne pathogens.  He holds a B.S. from Stanford University, a D.Phil. in molecular parasitology from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and member of the NIH-Oxford Graduate Partnership Program, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Most recently, he has been working in Dr. John Leong’s laboratory to further understand the pathophysiology of the Lyme bacteria.

Read more about Dr. Lemieux at: https://www.sabetilab.org/jacob-lemieux/