$767K in expenses

The lyme disease biobank, sponsored by bay area lyme foundation, is a collection of humanbiological samples that facilitates research of lyme disease and other tick-borne infections. By collecting blood and urine from patients with early-stage lyme disease and persistent lyme disease, as well as tissue samples from late-stage lyme patients, this important program will help dramatically improve research efforts to accelerate medical breakthroughs in the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of lyme disease and other tick-borne infections. Currently, there are 106 research projects relying on biobank samples. These projects are helping to pave the way for new diagnostics and therapeutics, as well as making strides to improve our understanding of lyme and other tick-borne infections. Through the end of 2024, we have collected samples from > 1250 participants, and more than 23,050 samples were shipped to researchers. Our persistent lyme cohort now includes 154 participants. Additionally, lyme disease biobank collaborates with the national disease research interchange (ndri) for the collection of surgical and post-mortem tissue samples, and partners with mylymedata.org, a project of lymedisease.org, to pair samples with clinical information that can further enhance research. In 2024, tissue was collected from 12 donors: 6 post-mortem donors and 6 surgeries. Since 2019, tissue has been collected from 23 post-mortem donors and 21 surgical donors.