Aces Diagnostics

Thank you to the Flinn Foundation for selecting Aces Diagnostic as a top 10 finalist for the Flinn Foundation Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program.

Aces Diagnostics was recently honored at the Flinn Foundation Bio Capital Conference. We are proud to have been selected as a top ten finalist, out of the 49 companies that applied for the Flinn Foundation Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program. https://lnkd.in/gJjKRKYV

I've been so incredibly touched by the response to our findings that went online yesterday that #Lyme disease causing bacteria can live in female reproductive organs for over a year and increase risk for gynecological disease!!! We found this increased risk in mice and humans! Back at Stanford, when my team put our heads together with Victoria Mascetti Ph.D., tremendous efforts by Grace Blacker, Sarah Galloway, Maia Shoham, and Paige H. revealed that infected mice got cysts & tissue damage in their uterus and ovaries. With the support of Linda Griffith and the MIT Center for Gynepathology research, Paige H. was able to really dive in and bring this all together with our incredible collaborators at MIT and beyond. Special imaging technologies by Sixian You's lab with Kunzan Liu revealed the bacteria in endometrial tissue of the uterus. Qingying Feng and Brandon Lee would track these glowing bacteria throughout the mouse body for months, with the help of some extraordinary undergraduate researchers, Jade Kuan, Amie Kitjasateanphun, and a graduate student Sophie VanderWeele. Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong with the help of Prasanna Padmanabham, Monika Perez, and Rangarajan Bharadwaj then studied 100,000s of human health records. They found that people with Lyme had much higher rates of endometriosis & other multiple other gynecological problems. Luckily my lab also now has our very own ObGyn on the team Guido Pisani who is well on his way to the next chapter of this story, so stay tuned, there's much more to come! For years people have been asking if Lyme disease might cause miscarriage and other pregnancy problems. Our study shows an important link between this infection and gynecological disease and more research is vital. This research changes how we understand Lyme. It's a much bigger problem than we thought, especially for women. I'm so proud of first author Paige H., and so grateful to all of the authors who contributed tremendously to this research! This would simply not have been possible without Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong, and all our co-authors Linda Griffith, Beth Pollack, Sixian You, Grace Blacker, Sarah Galloway, Qingying Feng, Prasanna Padmanabham, Guido Pisani, Brandon Lee, Grace Loeser, Kunzan Liu, Kaylon Bruner-TranEmelia von Saltza, Victoria Mascetti Ph.D., Eric Gars, Hanna M. Ollila, Satu Strausz, Georgie Nahass, and a whole village of support, more than I can list here. I also want to acknowledge the transformational philanthropic support by Emily and Malcolm Fairbairn which made this research possible! Also Sue Faber was an inspiration for this work, as well as so many patients who reached out with heart wrenching stories that moved us to make sure this topic got the research and attention it deserved. https://lnkd.in/e-H9WaYV

Kris Kristofferson's shocking tale of Lyme-induced Alzheimer's https://lnkd.in/gsGYfFKk

LymeSeek?, developed through a collaboration between?Tulane University?and Focus on Lyme, combines advanced biomarker research from?Tulane's?Monica Embers and nine years of intensive work funded by Focus on Lyme. Enhanced by machine learning, this innovative diagnostic promises to reshape Lyme disease detection.

It starts with better testing! Tulane scientist Monica Embers, PhD ventures into entrepreneurship and co-founds a company to create better Lyme disease testing. | Tulane University Innovation Institute https://lnkd.in/gaTFPEJM

Excited to share!! Breakthrough in Lyme Disease Testing: New Diagnostic Tool Boasts Over 90% Accuracy https://lnkd.in/gBi2Nk34

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