Dr. Linden Hu is the Paul and Elaine Chervinsky Professor of Immunology at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Hu received his A.B. and M.D. from Brown University. He completed a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center. It was there that he was “bitten” by an interest in tick- borne diseases and he has spent the past 28 years involved in both bench and clinical studies of Lyme disease.

His laboratory works on multiple aspects of Lyme disease including vaccine development, new diagnostics and treatments, and understanding interactions between Borrelia burgdorferi and its tick and animal hosts. Most recently, his lab has been researching how the organism evades the host immune response and how human genetic mutations may alter the ability of the bacterial host to control inflammatory responses. The lab is also partnering with other laboratories on strategies to eradicate tick borne pathogens from their wild reservoirs. Dr. Hu is the former co-Chair of the Human Health and Services Tick-borne Disease Working Group and is on the scientific board of advisors for the Global Lyme Alliance and the Bay Area Lyme Foundation and a former Vice Chair of the Research Committee of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.