Awarding more than $10 million for Lyme and tick-borne disease research to date. Global Lyme Alliance funded projects have led to unprecedented advances in prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

For the past decade, GLA has funded innovative and promising research at top-tier universities across the United States, including Johns Hopkins University, Washington University in St Louis, Texas A&M, Northeastern University, University of Missouri, University of California San Francisco, University of Pennsylvania and Stony Brook University.

The results have been significant:

• Researchers were the first to characterize chronic or post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome.
• Sequenced the Borrelia burgdorferi genome of multiple strains; discovered how the bacteria can survive antibiotic therapy, and continue to document immune dysfunction in Lyme disease patients.
• Recent discoveries funded by GLA include the role cell wall-deficient forms, or L-forms, play in chronic bacterial infection, including Lyme disease.
• The first-ever drug candidate for chronic Lyme disease is actively being researched, as well as a greater understanding of ways that the Lyme bacteria trick the immune system.

NextStep is an internationally recognized non-profit that makes life-changing rehab and fitness accessible and affordable to individuals living with paralysis. Today, most of these individuals are deprived of the resources they desperately need to live long, healthy and happy lives. NextStep’s goal is to open NextStep paralysis recovery centers across the country to ensure an improved quality-of-life and a continuum of care for this underserved population.

Since 2008, NextStep has been a resource to people and families globally, launched a nationwide movement, and inspired millions. Currently operating paralysis training centers in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Orlando, Kansas City, Raleigh, Phoenix, and Las Vegas.