Haute 100: Steven A. Cohen’s Foundation Donates $6.5M to Lyme Disease

By Melanie Turchyn

On Wednesday, Dec. 16th, the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation donated $6.5 million to Lyme disease research. The donation is the largest private contribution ever given to Lyme disease research, according to the Bay Area Lyme Foundation. The gift will support Bay Area Lyme’s mission of using new scientific research and innovations to make Lyme disease easy to diagnose and simple to cure.