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Created in 2008, Phoenix Rising is the largest and oldest forum dedicated to furthering the understanding of, and finding treatments for, complex chronic illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, long COVID, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), and allied diseases.
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The Biomedical Research into ME Collaborative Meeting will take place on 29th May in London and precedes the annual Invest in ME biomedical research conference. The 2013 BRMEC meeting had participants from nine countries attending.
The 9th Invest in ME International ME conference in London on 30th May will again allow a platform for the latest biomedical research into ME from around the world - Mainstreaming ME Research.
Professor Jonathan Edwards, Emeritus Professor of Connective Tissue Medicine at University College London (UCL)
Professor Edwards will provide a keynote speech at IIMEC9 in London in May.
Professor Edwards will also be co-chair of the Biomedical Research into ME Collaborative research seminar on the day preceding the conference.
Professor Edwards is IiME's advisor.
See the IiME/UCL rituximab clinical trial project
Let's Do It for ME comments here.
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We welcome Professor Angela Vincent, Emeritus Professor of Neuroimmunology at the University of Oxford. She has vast experience in neuroimmunology and runs the Clinical Neuroimmunology service which is an international referral centre for the measurement of antibodies in neurological diseases. Her major interest is in the role of autoimmunity in neurological diseases, including multiple sclerosis and auto-antibody mediated ion channel and receptor disorders.
Dr Amolak Bansal will also return to provide an overview of diagnosis and treatment in UK and will lead a panel to discuss diagnosis and treatments for ME.
Dr Bansal is heavily involved in the research being funded by Invest in ME and is the consultant leading the CFS service at Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Trust in Surrey.
Another speaker
Professor Jonas Blomberg - Infection-induced autoimmunity in ME
http://www.investinme.eu/agenda.html#Conference_Programme
Dr Julian Blanco
Leader of the Irsi Caixa Research Institute's Cell Virology and Immunology Research Group, Barcelona, Spain
The IrsiCaixa Institute for AIDS Research IRSI Caixa works alongside the most prestigious international research centres, and its publications are among those with the most impact in their field.
Dr Blanco has vast experience in HIV related research but has also been involved in ME/CFS research as in 2013 his group published the paper , Screening NK-, B- and T-cell phenotype and function in patients suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Curriu et al. Journal of Translational Medicine 2013, 11:68.