Causes: Health, Health Support

Mission: Fund cutting-edge research into Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.

Results: Provided 80% of funding to endow the Columbia University Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center in 2007.Since 2012, research teams funded by Lyme Research Alliance (LRA) have announced:Dramatic progress toward a new dependable diagnostic test for Lyme diseasePre-approval to enter clinical trials with a new treatment for “chronic” Lyme diseaseNewly understood mechanisms by which the Borrelia spirochete evades attacks by antibiotics

Programs: We write University level research grants. Provide community and school education programs on Lyme disease prevention.