by Timothy Sellati, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, GLA GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE’S CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER OFFERS PERSPECTIVE ON NEW RESEARCH OUT OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY WITH ANALYSIS OF BLACKLEGGED TICKS Ixodes scapularis, the blacklegged tick, is …MORE
by Timothy Sellati, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, GLA Ying Zhang, Ph.D., a Global Lyme Alliance (GLA)-funded investigator, and his team at Johns Hopkins University just published a seminal study in the journal Discovery Medicine titled …MORE
Dr. Mayla Hsu, Ph.D., Director of Research and Science at Global Lyme Alliance interviews Dr. Neeta Connally, Ph.D., medical entomologist, associate professor and Director of the Tickborne Disease Prevention Laboratory at Western Connecticut State University. …MORE
HIGHLIGHTS FROM GLA’S 2019 LYME DISEASE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM WITH TOP LYME RESEARCHERS by Mayla Hsu, Ph.D., Director of Research and Science, GLA (pictured: GLA grantee Dr. John Aucott, GLA’s Dr. Mayla Hsu, GLA SAB …MORE
GLA’s Chief Scientific Officer and Director of Research and Science identified the Top 7 science-based events to impact the Lyme disease community in 2018 Connection Between Lyme Disease and Depression GLA-funded investigator, Brian Fallon …MORE
MEET THE RESEARCHER IS A BLOG SERIES TO INTRODUCE GLA-FUNDED LYME DISEASE RESEARCHERS MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST LYME DISEASE. #MEETTHERESEARCHER NAME: Catherine Brissette, Ph.D. TITLE: Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences INSTITUTION: University of North …MORE
by Mayla Hsu, Ph.D., Director of Research & Science, GLA It is no surprise that when funding for research lags, associated progress in science and medicine slows. Perhaps no area of health research illustrates this …MORE
A study by Igor Dumic and Edson Severnini entitled “Ticking Bomb: The Impact of Climate Change on the Incidence of Lyme Disease” published in Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology describes the relationship …MORE
by Mayla Hsu, Ph.D., Director of Research and Science, GLA Global Lyme Alliance’s Director of Research and Science offers perspective on newly published research on using essential oils to treat Lyme disease Global Lyme …MORE
by Timothy Sellati, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, GLA GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE’S CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER OFFERS PERSPECTIVE ON NEWLY PUBLISHED GLA-FUNDED RESEARCH OUT OF JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF HEALTH A Global Lyme Alliance (GLA)-funded …MORE
by Mayla Hsu, Ph.D., Director of Research and Science, GLA “Tickpocalypse!” “The Year of the Tick!” “A Tick-ing Time Bomb!” These are all recent clickbait headlines that cause us fear and anxiety. But how do we …MORE
MEET THE RESEARCHER IS A BLOG SERIES TO INTRODUCE GLA-FUNDED LYME DISEASE RESEARCHERS MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST LYME DISEASE. #MEETTHERESEARCHER NAME: Ying Zhang, M.D., Ph.D. TITLE: Professor at Department of Molecular Microbiology …MORE
MEET THE RESEARCHER IS A BLOG SERIES TO INTRODUCE GLA-FUNDED LYME DISEASE RESEARCHERS MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST LYME DISEASE. #MEETTHERESEARCHER NAME: Kim Lewis, Ph.D. TITLE: University Distinguished Professor; Director, Antimicrobial Discovery Center; Department …MORE
Predators, acorns, & fragmentation regulate numbers of infected ticks Public Release from the CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES (Millbrook, NY) In the eastern US, risk of contracting Lyme disease is higher in fragmented forests with …MORE
Meet the Researcher is a blog series to introduce GLA-funded Lyme disease researchers, and in this case, GLA’s Chief Scientific Officer. #Meettheresearcher NAME: Timothy J. Sellati, Ph.D. TITLE: Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Sellati has …MORE
by Timothy Sellati, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, GLA Lyme disease is the most commonly occurring vector-borne disease in the United States. The number of cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) …MORE
by Ashley Ross from The Daily Beast Blame its bacteria’s weird protein structure. For 25 years, Heather McKean has experienced uncomfortable, unexplainable health issues. Since she was five years old, the 30-year-old has lived with …MORE
Highlights from GLA’s 8th Annual Research Symposium with top Lyme Disease Researchers by Timothy J. Sellati, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, GLA (pictured: GLA’s Scott Santarella and Dr. Timothy Sellati with GLA grantee Dr. Nicole Baumgarth) …MORE
By Philip Perry Originally published on bigthink.com For the last 40 years, a minority of researchers have considered the notion that a pathogen might be behind Alzheimer’s disease. In 2011, Judith Miklossy (former GLA Scientific Advisory Board member) and fellow …MORE
by Mackenzie Kwak Ticks carry a wide array of pathogens – and environmental changes mean they are spreading Since the beginning of our species we have been at war. It’s a continuous, neverending fight against the …MORE
by Mayla Hsu, Ph.D. Director, Research and Science Global Lyme Alliance Stopping Lyme disease before it starts. Promising new research based on pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. It’s frustrating that there are so few ways …MORE
by Mayla Hsu, Ph.D Director of Research and Science, GLA GLA hosts top researchers to discuss Lyme disease research. How can we understand Lyme disease better? Are there drugs that can kill persistent bacteria? Why …MORE
Bartonella is a tick-borne co-infection. As with Lyme disease, its symptoms can be debilitating. While the most common tick-borne infection is Lyme disease, infected ticks may carry more than one kind of microbe or …MORE
The most common tick-borne infection is Lyme disease. However, infected ticks also carry and spread numerous co-infections. The newest Global Lyme Alliance podcast, with GLA’s Dr. Harriet Kotsoris and Dr. Mayla Hsu, discusses Lyme disease …MORE
Understanding Lyme disease can be as complicated as the bacteria that causes it. Global Lyme Alliance is launching a podcast series to help make sense of it all. The podcasts will cover everything from basic …MORE
The March 31, 2016 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine published a study of antibiotic treatment for long-term Lyme disease (Berende et al.). Individuals were treated with a two-week course of intravenous ceftriaxone, …MORE
Global Lyme Alliance (GLA), the nation’s leading nonprofit funder of Lyme and tick-borne disease research and education, announced today that it has awarded a record total of over $1 million in grants to eight researchers …MORE
