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Invest in ME Biomedical Research Colloquium 2017 #BRMEC7

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The 7th Invest in ME Biomedical Research into Colloquium (BRMEC7) with the objective to increase international collaboration in research into ME will take place in London over the two days 31st May-1st June 2017 before the 12th Invest in ME International ME Conference (IIMEC12) on 2nd June 2017.

Chairing and participating in the meeting will be members of the Invest in ME Research Scientific Advisory Board and the newly formed European ME Research Group ((EMERG).

IiMER hope to have representation from most of the main biomedical research initiatives now occurring throughout the world. The first participant to be announced is Dr Vicky Whittemore from USA National Institutes of Health. She will be returning to give keynote speeches at the 7th Biomedical Research into ME Colloquium (#BRMEC7) and the 12th International ME Conference 2017 ((#IIMEC12)

If you are a researcher and are interested in attending the BRMEC* Colloquiums you can contact the charity (Invest in ME Research) to discuss this - http://www.investinme.eu/BRMEC Colloquiums.shtml

There are also opportunities to sponsor the colloquium including the possibility for exhibition tables and publicity materials and networking with delegates at BRMEC7.

By sponsoring this event - which includes a dinner for all researchers and two full days of discussions - one will help make progress the research into this disease. Details here - http://investinme.eu/IIMEC12-sponsorship.shtml

(There's a separate thread for IIMEC12 at http://forums.phoenixrising.me/inde...-2017-registration-is-open.47326/#post-795919 so I've started this thread just for the two day colloquium).
Source - http://www.investinme.eu/BRMEC Colloquiums.shtml#BRMEC7

The Invest in ME Research Biomedical Research into ME Colloquiums are research meetings organised by the charity to encourage biomedical research into ME and international collaboration amongst researchers.

This is one of the main objectives of the charity. Invest in ME Research began arranging biomedical research conferences in our first year and have continued them ever since - mostly funded by the charity but with help from some wonderful supporters and some good friends.

The Invest in ME International Biomedical Research into ME Colloquiums began in 2011 as a way of bringing together researchers from around the world in a round-table discussion of ME research and ideas.

Over the years this has broadened into sharing of experiences, data and plans for future research.

A culmination of much of this effort has been the formation of The European ME Research Group (EMERG) which met in October 2015 in London to set up a strategy of European collaboration in ME research.

We now have a basis for creating a strategy of high-quality international biomedical research - something which has been lacking in the past.

This will hold great promise of finding funding opportunities and raising awareness of biomedical research into ME.

Our aim with the annual CPD-accredited research colloquiums has also been to introduce new researchers into the field of ME research, to gain new insights into the disease and enhance the strategy of research we are building.

The colloquiums have spawned a number of positive initiatives over the years and BRMEC6 in 2016 was the most successful yet with multiple collaborative initiatives being formed across continents.

The Invest in ME - Research BRMEC* Colloquiums are the most successful research meetings for forming new research initiatives for ME.

We will continue to bring in new researchers from outside the ME field to enhance the knowledge and ideas - something the charity has proudly been doing from its beginning.
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Countries represented (will try to update as announced) -

USA

Dr. Vicky Whittemore (National Institutes of Health)
http://www.investinme.eu/IIMEC12-news-1202.shtml

Professor Ron Davis (Stanford Genome Technology Center)
http://www.investinme.eu/IIMEC12-news-1203.shtml

Professor Mady Hornig (Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University)
http://www.investinme.eu/IIMEC12-news-1205.shtml

Professor Maureen Hanson (Cornell University)
http://www.investinme.eu/IIMEC12-news-1206.shtml


UK

Professor Simon Carding (Norwich Research Park - University of East Anglia/Institute of Food Research)
http://www.investinme.eu/IIMEC12-news-1204.shtml

Invest in ME Research - 7th Biomedical Research into ME Colloquium - BRMEC7 - 2017 -
http://www.investinme.eu/BRMEC Colloquiums.shtml#BRMEC7
 
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From Invest in ME Research Chairman's Welcome to IIMEC12 - http://www.investinme.eu/IIMEC12-chairman-message.shtml
In June 2016 Invest in ME Research held its sixth Biomedical Research into ME Colloquium in London - BRMEC6.

The Colloquium had as its theme international collaboration.

Our Colloquium banner used the following quote –

"Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success"


- Henry Ford

It was a theme that our invited delegates (researchers from 14 countries around the world) embraced.

The BRMEC6 Colloquium was a pivotal point in the history of Invest in ME Research as it celebrated its 10th year as a charity. Because coming from the meeting was a palpable sense of research into ME really having become an international concern – endorsing Invest in ME Research’s strategy of international collaboration in research into ME.

Collaboration and working together can easily become just buzz-words – meaningless terms given out in press releases and handouts, attempting to make an impression that something is happening.

Yet BRMEC6, and the following public IIMEC11 conference, really did validate our long held belief that international collaboration in biomedical research can lead to patients being given back their lives.

Last year was the first time that the Invest in ME Research conferences had a speaker from a government organisation.

It was wonderful to have Dr Vicky Whittemore representing the National Institute of Health and opening both our BRMEC6 Colloquium and IIMEC11 Conference and showing NIH visibility for this disease and endorsing our view of international collaboration as a critical means to an end.

Both the Colloquium and Conference were high-quality, forward-looking events which served to improve knowledge of this disease and generate and improve international collaboration into ME.

Full message here - http://www.investinme.eu/IIMEC12-chairman-message.shtml
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Extract from Research News from Fane Mensah - http://www.investinme.org/ce-news-1702-01.shtml

A quick flashback to June 2016, at the 6th Invest in ME Research International Biomedical Research into ME Colloquium (#BRMEC6) meeting in London where Chris and I met. We were the two youngest scientists at the meeting to give a presentation about our research.

It would not have been the first thing we would have in common!

Straight after our presentations we started to talk about each other’s experiments and found out that the two completely different fields we were working in (Immunology and Metabolomics) could be complementary.

It is well known that immune issues have often been associated with ME/CFS (B cells, NK cells T cells etc.).

More recently, different groups, including Christopher and his colleagues have studied changes in the metabolic profile in ME/CFS patients.

Their data is very promising and consistent which supports a possible role in this condition.

Following some bonding drinks after the conference, Christopher visited us (myself and Dr. Cambridge) the next week at UCL where we laid the base for our collaboration.

After Christopher returned to Australia, and several (late and early) Skype meetings we put together a grant application for the Solve ME/CFS Initiative Ramsay award which is an award that supports (young) scientists from different fields committed to ME/CFS research. This award gives them the opportunity to lay the basis for more substantial collaborative research projects.

(source - http://www.investinme.org/ce-news-1702-01.shtml )
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The Norsk Helsedirektoratet (Norwegian Directorate of Health) will participate in the #BRMEC7 Colloquium and #IIMEC12 Conference events and hopefully some journalists from Europe.

Invest in ME Research has also extended invitations to the Canadian Minister for Health Jane Philpott and the Canadian National Research Council – and to the Dutch Health Council.
 
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BRMEC7 Agenda shaping up (source: http://www.investinme.eu/BRMEC Colloquiums.shtml#brmec7 )

Day 1 - 31st May 2017

Welcome to the 7th Invest in ME International Biomedical Research into ME Colloquium 2017

NIH Research into ME

Diagnosis – Patient Stratification (including the following)
Clinical signs of ME
Differentiation of stress induced fatiguing conditions and ME: diagnosis and treatment
Protocols and Patient Databases for ME
Medical Education
Chaired Discussion

Metabolomics (including the following)
Severely ill
Metabolic Profiling
Metabolomics Data
Chaired discussion Metabolomics

Immunology
Autoantibody research

Neuroimaging
Immune-Brain Communication
Chaired Discussion Neuroimaging in ME Research
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Day 2 - 1st June 2017

Clinical Trials (including the following)
Chaired discussion Clinical Trials

Biomarkers (including the following)
Genomic approach to find novel biomarkers and mechanisms
Virome and Gut Microbiota in ME
miRNA
Centres Updates

TBC (including the following)
VO2 Max Exercise
SUMMARY of BRMEC7 - Objectives Status
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