Prof Jonathon Edwards to be IiME Rituximab trial advisor

[Sasha]

Details here:

http://networkedblogs.com/N8B1c

What a coup! Look at his background.

IiME already have £12,000 in the bag without even breaking a sweat:

https://www.justgiving.com/ritux4meuk

Here's their main page, including all their donation mechanisms:

http://www.investinme.org/IIME UK Rituximab Trial.htm

 

[Purple]

EXCELLENT NEWS!
(yes, I did mean to shout this...)

 

[user9876]

He started using Rituximab for RA some years ago and also seems to have followed Fluge and Mella's work. He wrote a good comment when Van Der Meer attacked the Rituximab trial

http://www.plosone.org/annotation/listThread.action?root=6147

 

[Esther12]

Good news.

Hopefully he might be able to advance work on finding a way of identifying those patients most likely to benefit. Linking the rituximab CFS work to others working in a similar area but outside of CFS seems like a really positive move.

 

[Gemini]

Good news.

Hopefully he might be able to advance work on finding a way of identifying those patients most likely to benefit. Linking the rituximab CFS work to others working in a similar area but outside of CFS seems like a really positive move.

Esther,

You're absolutely right!

In RA they can identify non-responders to rituximab using an interferon [gene expression] signature:

"The interferon type I signature towards prediction of non-response to rituximab in rheumatoid arthritis patients, " Arthritis Res Ther, April 2012

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22540992

Let's hope the Professor is familiar with this groundbreaking work in another disease & can apply it to ME/CFS.