Jon Blevins


June 25, 2015

UAMS Researcher Awarded Grant to Study Lyme Disease

Kelly Gardner

LITTLE ROCK — Jon Blevins, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine, has been awarded a two-year grant of more than $400,000 by the National Institutes of Health to study the genetics of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes…