Ticks are winning. Research is how tip the scales back:

Lyme disease is spreading. Ticks stay active longer, reach places they never used to, and infect more people every year. Yet most Lyme patients still find GLA the same way: years of symptoms no one can explain, doctors who say it's stress, tests that miss it, treatment that doesn't finish the job. Then a late-night search that lands here.

We answer that search with research. Lyme research receives a fraction of the funding of other diseases with far fewer patients. Global Lyme Alliance exists to close that gap, and to make sure the science that can shorten the road to a diagnosis and a cure doesn't sit unfunded.

Once a year we open the research window. Scientists send us their best ideas for beating Lyme, and we fund as many as our donors make possible. This year we were inundated with proposals: tests that don't miss the mark, treatments for the patients that antibiotics didn't fix, and answers for the people living with symptoms doctors can't explain. Every one of them is ready to start.

Because of supporters like you, GLA has committed more than $27 million to our mission worldwide, supporting 75+ studies and contributing to 190+ peer-reviewed publications. Every gift to this appeal goes to that work.

The window closes Tuesday, September 15. Your gift decides how many. Please give today.

Summer Research Appeal 2026

Help fund what comes next in Lyme disease research