ISB LAUNCHES 3-YEAR WILKE LYME DISEASE PROJECT WITH $2.13M FUNDING

Study Utilizes Systems Approaches to Develop Diagnostics and Deeper Understanding of Chronic Lyme

PRESS RELEASE, SEATTLE, March 26, 2015 – Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) has received $2.13 million in transformational gifts from Jeff and Liesl Wilke; Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos; and the Bay Area Lyme Foundation to tackle chronic Lyme disease, a highly complex and often misdiagnosed disease that can be debilitating for those who do not respond to a standard course of antibiotics.

Read the whole story: 

http://isbmolecularme.com/isb-launches-3-year-wilke-lyme-disease-project-with-2-13m-funding-2/

Note that that one of the funders is one of founders of Google. on the downside, note who is in the research committee....“Clinical experts included:

 

Allen Steere, MD  Harvard Medical School

Gary Wormser,MD  New York Medical College

Brian Fallon, MD,MPH Med  Columbia University Medical Center

Ralph Budd, MD The University of Vermont College of Medicine”