The National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded a one-year Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant for $225,000 in funding to Enable Biosciences to develop an improved Lyme disease test.

Columbia and Tulane universities are sub-awardees of the grant.

Joining me today to discuss this work is Monica Embers, Ph.D., Dr Embers is an assistant professor of bacteriology and parasitology at Tulane University.

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