Dr. Jacob Lemieux is a post-doctoral researcher in the Sabeti Lab at Harvard University and an infectious disease fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He holds a B.S. from Stanford University, a D.Phil. in molecular parasitology from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and member of the NIH-Oxford Graduate Partnership Program, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
As an active infectious disease clinician, Dr. Lemieux cares for patients with a variety of infectious diseases. The goal of his research is to improve the care of patients with tick-borne disease by advancing our understanding of fundamental disease mechanisms and developing new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.
His diagnostic project was selected for the 2020 Emerging Leader Award, a $100,000 grant. For a description of his current Lyme research, click here.