Jorge Benach

Who is Jorge Benach?

Jorge Benach is a medical researcher at the Stony Brook University in New York state. Benach is the chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. Benach's main area of research is the tick borne spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi which is the causative agent of Lyme disease.

Benach also has begun to investigate organisms that could be used as bioterrorism agents, specifically Francisella tularensis, the bacterial agent of tularemia.

Benach graduated with a PhD from Rutgers University in 1972. Benach was named to a National Advisory Allergy and Infectious Diseases Council in 1998 and was named a 1992 Fulbright-Hays Fellow and Exchange Professor.