$7 Million in New Grants Propel Tufts Lyme Research to Next Level
Scientists across Tufts who are part of the university’s Lyme Disease Initiative have recently received grants from the U.S. government, private foundations, and others totaling more than $7 million to attack the disease from all angles. This research expansion will build on an already impressive array of research discoveries that teams at Tufts have made to combat tick-borne diseases.
The new grants will focus on teasing apart the underlying causes of chronic Lyme disease—and may also have implications for other diseases, including long COVID. Other newly funded research will hunt for better ways to diagnose and track Lyme infection and reinfection, and ways to prevent both Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, such as babesiosis.
Keep reading for more on these newly funded efforts, which represent just some of the ways Tufts is fighting Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.
