Nouveau centre pour la recherche sur Lyme Columbia Uni
Posté : 01 mai 2007 15:04
http://www.lymediseaseassociation.org/CUMC.html
Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center
Who will head the Center and advise it?
The Director of the Center will be Dr. Brian Fallon, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.
The Scientific Advisory Board for the Columbia Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center brings together internationally-renowned scientists, including Dr. Claire Fraser (led the team that mapped the Borrelia Genome), Dr. Janis Weis (pathogenesis of Lyme arthritis), Dr. John Mann (translational neuroscience), Dr. Steven Schutzer (novel diagnostic tests), Dr. Ian Lipkin (foreign pathogen identification), Dr. Jorge Benach (Borrelia and Coinfections), Dr. Scott Hammer (infectious disease), Dr. Diego Cadavid (neuropathology and neurology), Dr. Ronald Van Heertum (neuroimaging), and Dr. Aaron Mitchell (molecular pathogenesis).
What is the Center?
The Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center will use the vast resources of Columbia University in New York to bring together various disciplines from within and outside of the university to address fundamental clinical and basic science questions that plague adults and children affected by Lyme disease.
The clinical and research mission includes studies of new diagnostic tests, clinical phenomenology, immunopathogenesis, co-infections, genetic markers of vulnerability, functional and structural brain imaging, neuoropathology of post-mortem brains, and well-controlled studies of new treatments. This Center, the first such facility in the world devoted to chronic Lyme disease, will serve as a national resource, providing pilot grants to researchers nation-wide and focusing the latest scientific technology on helping to resolve the problems of chronic Lyme disease.
Where will the Center be located?
The Center will use existing space within Columbia University Medical Center.
When will the Center officially open?
April 30, 2007, opening ceremonies.
Why is the Center needed?
While much is known about early Lyme disease, relatively little is known about chronic Lyme disease, despite its rising prevalence and disabling effects. These effects may include arthritis, cognitive loss, peripheral neuropathies, and debilitating fatigue. Sometimes, LD may also cause strokes, blindness, severe psychiatric disorders, and multiple-sclerosis-like illnesses. Adults may become permanently disabled, and children may be home sick for months or years, missing the key academic and social influences so critical to healthy development.
How was the Center established?
The national New Jersey-based Lyme Disease Association, Inc. (LDA) and Connecticut-based Time For Lyme (TFL) who are affiliated organizations, partnered with Columbia in the development of this center concept and devoted a large percent of their efforts and resources in the past 5 years to funding the endowment for the Center. People nationwide contributed to make this effort a success.
LDA’s Literati with Lyme, a group of authors and others in the publishing field, helped in the fundraising effort (Amy Tan, Meg Cabot, Rebecca Wells, Jordan Fisher Smith, E. Jean Carol, Jennifer Weis) as did LDA’s National Spokesperson, two time Oscar-nominated actor, Mary McDonnell, currently starring in the Peabody Award TV series, BattleStar Galactica. Many other professionals and corporations contributed their efforts to help the LDA & TFL establish the Center
Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center
Who will head the Center and advise it?
The Director of the Center will be Dr. Brian Fallon, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.
The Scientific Advisory Board for the Columbia Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center brings together internationally-renowned scientists, including Dr. Claire Fraser (led the team that mapped the Borrelia Genome), Dr. Janis Weis (pathogenesis of Lyme arthritis), Dr. John Mann (translational neuroscience), Dr. Steven Schutzer (novel diagnostic tests), Dr. Ian Lipkin (foreign pathogen identification), Dr. Jorge Benach (Borrelia and Coinfections), Dr. Scott Hammer (infectious disease), Dr. Diego Cadavid (neuropathology and neurology), Dr. Ronald Van Heertum (neuroimaging), and Dr. Aaron Mitchell (molecular pathogenesis).
What is the Center?
The Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center will use the vast resources of Columbia University in New York to bring together various disciplines from within and outside of the university to address fundamental clinical and basic science questions that plague adults and children affected by Lyme disease.
The clinical and research mission includes studies of new diagnostic tests, clinical phenomenology, immunopathogenesis, co-infections, genetic markers of vulnerability, functional and structural brain imaging, neuoropathology of post-mortem brains, and well-controlled studies of new treatments. This Center, the first such facility in the world devoted to chronic Lyme disease, will serve as a national resource, providing pilot grants to researchers nation-wide and focusing the latest scientific technology on helping to resolve the problems of chronic Lyme disease.
Where will the Center be located?
The Center will use existing space within Columbia University Medical Center.
When will the Center officially open?
April 30, 2007, opening ceremonies.
Why is the Center needed?
While much is known about early Lyme disease, relatively little is known about chronic Lyme disease, despite its rising prevalence and disabling effects. These effects may include arthritis, cognitive loss, peripheral neuropathies, and debilitating fatigue. Sometimes, LD may also cause strokes, blindness, severe psychiatric disorders, and multiple-sclerosis-like illnesses. Adults may become permanently disabled, and children may be home sick for months or years, missing the key academic and social influences so critical to healthy development.
How was the Center established?
The national New Jersey-based Lyme Disease Association, Inc. (LDA) and Connecticut-based Time For Lyme (TFL) who are affiliated organizations, partnered with Columbia in the development of this center concept and devoted a large percent of their efforts and resources in the past 5 years to funding the endowment for the Center. People nationwide contributed to make this effort a success.
LDA’s Literati with Lyme, a group of authors and others in the publishing field, helped in the fundraising effort (Amy Tan, Meg Cabot, Rebecca Wells, Jordan Fisher Smith, E. Jean Carol, Jennifer Weis) as did LDA’s National Spokesperson, two time Oscar-nominated actor, Mary McDonnell, currently starring in the Peabody Award TV series, BattleStar Galactica. Many other professionals and corporations contributed their efforts to help the LDA & TFL establish the Center