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Timothy J. Sellati, Ph.D.

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Chief Scientific Officer

Dr. Sellati has more than 20 years of Lyme and tick-borne disease research experience. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed infectious disease papers, nearly 20 of which are focused on Lyme disease. As GLA's Chief Scientific Officer, he leads GLA's research initiatives to ...

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Kim Lewis, Ph.D.

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University Distinguished Professor; Director, Antimicrobial Discovery Center; Department of Biology

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Northeastern University

Dr. Lewis is one of the foremost scientists tackling Lyme disease. In 2015, Dr. Lewis's published report in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy confirms GLA/Johns Hopkins original findings that the bacterium that causes Lyme disease forms dormant persister cells, which are ...

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Ying Zhang, M.D., Ph.D.

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Professor at Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Institutions

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Dr. Zhang\u2019s research interests are focused on antibiotic resistance, bacterial persistence, and development of more effective treatments for a wide variety of persistent bacterial infections, including tuberculosis (TB). His group has identified persistence mechanisms in ...

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Catherine Brissette, Ph.D.

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Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences

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University of North Dakota

Catherine (Cat) Brissette received her B.S. degree in Zoology from Louisiana State University, her M.S. with Dr. Paula Fives-Taylor at the University of Vermont, and her Ph.D. from the University of Washington for her work with Dr. Sheila Lukehart on interactions of oral ...

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Lise Nigrovic, M.D., M.P.H.

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Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine

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Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Her latest peer-reviewed publication is Pediatric Lyme Disease Biobank, United States, 2015-2020. Dec 2020. Emerging Infectious Diseases 26:12:3099-3101. A Point of View about her article, supported by funding from GLA, appears here. Why did you want to become a scientist? ...

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Maria Gutierrez-Hoffmann, Ph.D.

Maria Gutierrez-Hoffmann, Ph.D. is a scientist at the Food and Drug Administration in the Office of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Assessment. As a postdoctoral fellow, her Lyme disease research was supported by GLA. Her most recent peer-reviewed publication is Borrelia ...

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