Our Mission: Innovating to Protect Humanity from the Global Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance: Integrating Solutions Across Human and Veterinary Medicine, Stewardship, and Awareness
Please join us for a seminar from Tufts Medicine’s Edouard Vannier, PharmD, PhD, on “Persistent Babesiosis: from Immune Deficiency to Antimicrobial Resistance.” Babesiosis is a sometimes life-threatening infectious disease caused by parasites that invade and destroy red blood cells. Babesiosis has been on the rise in the northeastern United States and often develops following the bite of a deer tick infected with Babesia microti. This talk is jointly sponsored by the Levy CIMAR and the Tufts Lyme Disease Initiative, and will take place on Thursday, October 31, at 12 noon in Behrakis Auditorium and by Zoom (details to come).
Dr. Vannier is an assistant professor at Tufts University’s School of Medicine and a researcher in the Division of Geographic Medicine & Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center. He is also a member of the Tufts Lyme Disease Initiative. Dr. Vannier and his colleagues are doing research on how to prevent babesiosis, supported by the NIH and DoD.
You can learn more about Dr. Vannier’s work on Tufts Medicine’s Babesiosis Research Program website.
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Our Values
The Levy CIMAR is committed to a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion both within our organization and for all people who are impacted by our work. We strive for health equity for people from all backgrounds and identities, and we actively support societal and institutional structures that promote justice and equality. We are also committed to being a safe, respectful, and inclusive environment for our trainees, staff, faculty, affiliates, and partners. One Health acknowledges the interconnectedness of all humans, along with animals and our environments. Antimicrobial resistance impacts us all.