NIST Workshop on Lyme Disease

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, hosted a Lyme Disease Workshop on June 6th, 2013. The Workshop focused on the challenges of measurement in Lyme disease. The goal of this workshop was to accelerate the development of sensitive and specific tests for Early Lyme disease and Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome.

This workshop provided a venue for discussion of a variety of promising technologies and techniques for addressing the measurement of Lyme disease. It was hoped that through increased awareness, research collaboration and creative solutions, we may accelerate the time to development of effective biomarkers needed for more reliable diagnosis and management of the different stages of Lyme disease.

Participants:

The participants in this workshop were scientists and physician scientists from the academic, government and private sectors. The common thread uniting the audience was a focus on advancing measurement tools for the better diagnosis and management of Lyme disease.

NIST Lyme Disease Workshop Agenda

NIST Lyme Disease Workshop Bibliography

Webcast:

The workshop was webcast from this page June 6, 2013 and is available for playback. Breakout Sessions were not webcast live.

Comments during the webcast? Please submit to: lymediseaseworkshop@nist.gov

 

Confirmed Topics and Speakers

Topic	Speaker
NIST Supporting Measurements for Clinical Diagnostics	Willie E. May, PhD, NIST
Keynote Address: Setting the Stage	John Aucott, MD, Johns Hopkins University
Clinical and Laboratory Challenges of Lyme Disease Diagnostics	Adriana Marques, MD, NIH-NIAID
Improved Serology	Ray Dattwyler, MD, New York Medical College
DNA Detection	Mark Eshoo, PhD, Ibis Biosciences, Inc., Abbott Laboratories
T Cell / Cytokine Assays	Linda Bockenstedt, MD, Yale University
Nanotechnology	A.T. Charlie Johnson, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Biorepository Needs and Possiblities	Lunch Roundtable Discussion
RNA Detection and Host Response	Charles Chiu, MD/PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Mass Spectrometry / Metabolomics	John Belisle, PhD, Colorado State University
Culture	Steve Dumler, MD, Johns Hopkins University
Imaging	Niren Murthy, PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Time will also be provided for breakout sessions for discussion of research topics.

Organizing Committee:

• Laurie Locascio, PhD, NIST
• Mary Satterfield, PhD, NIST
• John Aucott, MD, Johns Hopkins University
  
• David Roth, JD, Tick-Borne Disease Alliance
• Joseph Breen, PhD, NIH-NIAID
• Carin Rollins, MBA, Bay Area Lyme Foundation
• James Serum (Chair), PhD, Scitek Ventures (retired)

If you are not registered, you will not be allowed on site.

Registered attendees will receive security and campus instructions prior to the workshop.

NON U.S. CITIZENS PLEASE NOTE: All foreign national visitors who do not have permanent resident status and who wish to register for the above meeting must supply additional information. Failure to provide this information prior to arrival will result, at a minimum, in significant delays (up to 24 hours) in entering the facility. Authority to gather this information is derived from United States Department of Commerce Department Administrative Order (DAO) number 207-12. You can download the required form NIST-1260. Fill out the form and email to Mary Satterfield [mary.satterfield@nist.gov].