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Title: |
Ticks and Lyme Disease Educational Lecture - Navigate Your Healthcare Dinner Series |
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at Ward Melville Heritage Organization Educational and Cultural Center in Stony Brook |
Date: |
April 10, 2014 |
Time: |
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
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Admission: | $25.00 |
Location: |
Ward Melville Heritage Organization Educational and Cultural Center |
Street Address: |
Main Street |
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Stony Brook, NY 11790 |
Description: |
Ticks and Lyme Disease Educational Lecture - Navigate Your Healthcare Dinner Series at Ward Melville Heritage Organization Educational and Cultural Center in Stony Brook, Long Island, New York.
Get the facts from a pioneer in the field about recent discoveries and new strains of Lyme Disease, which can be fatal.
Speaker: Benjamin Luft, MD, (Edmund D. Pellegrino Professor of Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine), who helped in the development of a Lyme Disease vaccine which has shown great promise.
Since the early 1990s, Luft and the late John Dunn, Ph.D., a biologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, spearheaded the initial development of the original vaccine antigen concept and together with researchers at Baxter International, helped bioengineer the formulation used in a clinical trial.
Buffet dinner and dessert. |
Contact: |
631-689-5888 |
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