2022 Awardees

Human tick resistance at the tick-host interface
Phyllis Kanki (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) and Sam Telford (Tufts University)

Identification of T cell antigens presented during infection of mice with Borrelia burgdorferi
Michael Starnbach (Harvard Medical School) and Linden Hu (Tufts University)

2021 Awardees

Role of protective versus pathologic antibody responses in Lyme disease outcomes
John Branda (Massachusetts General Hospital)
 
Novel gene expression signatures for children with acute neurologic Lyme disease
Lise Nigrovic (Boston Children’s Hospital)
 
Establishing genome-wide pooled CRISPR-Cas9 screening in Ixodes scapularis (deer tick) cultured cells for the study of tick cell responses to the Lyme pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi
Norbert Perrimon (Harvard Medical School)
 
Role of the Borrelia surface polysaccharide PNAG in virulence and immunity in Lyme disease
Gerald Pier (Brigham and Women’s Hospital)
 
Improved sample collection devices for better Borrelia detection
Michael Springer (Harvard Medical School)
 
Manipulation of adaptive immunity by Borrelia burgdorferi as a driver of Lyme disease persistence
Michael Starnbach (Harvard Medical School)