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Dr. Mikovits Presentation Added to International XMRV Workshop Program

muffin

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Am I the only person that missed this big change? Ignore if you all know about this. I didn't. Glad to see Mikovits on the speakers list. I see the date is 18 August, before the release of PNAS. Did we have anything to do with this org getting Dr. Mikovits on the speakers list? I think a number of us sent emails complaining that she be on the panel and not just on the side-lines. What else have I missed!

http://www.prohealth.com/library/showarticle.cfm?libid=15538

Dr. Mikovits Presentation Added to International XMRV Workshop Program
August 18, 2010

An updated program has been posted for the 1st International Workshop on XMRV (September 7 and 8 in Bethesda Maryland, co-hosted by the NIH and Virology Education Inc.).

Two notable changes are that, in the Wednesday, Sep 8 session on chronic fatigue syndrome:
• The Whittemore Peterson Institute’s Dr. Judy Mikovits will co-chair the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome session with Tufts University’s Dr. John Coffin, advisor on HIV and AIDS to the National Cancer Institute.

• And Dr. Mikovits will present a paper on XMRV in blood of CFS patients in the UK.
Specifically, the chronic fatigue syndrome session listing is as follows:

Session 4: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Wed Sep 8 - 11:15 am to 1:00 pm

Chairs: Dr. John Coffin & Dr. Judy Mikovits

11:15 am – Invited lecture on chronic fatigue syndrome
F Ruscetti
[Francis W Ruscetti - National Cancer Institute’s Laboratory of Experimental Immunology; a co-author of the Oct 2009 Science paper linking XMRV to CFS]

11:45 am – Prevalence of XMRV in CFS patients and healthy controls
B Huber
[Brigitte Huber – Tufts University Sackler Shool. Reported finding no XMRV in her CFS study.]

12:00 noon – XMRV in chronic fatigue syndrome: A pilot study
M Hanson
[Maureen Hanson, Cornell University, principal investigator of current NIH-funded research on “The relationship of XMRV to functional status and co-infections in chronic fatigue syndrome.”]

12:15 pm - Detection of MLV-related virus gene sequences in blood of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy blood donors
S Lo
[Shyh-Ching Lo, a researcher at the FDA laboratory in Bethesda and leader of the study behind the yet-to-be-published “positive” XMRV paper.]

12:30 pm – Detection of infectious XMRV in the peripheral blood of chronic fatigue syndrome patients in the United Kingdom 13
J Mikovits
[Judy Mikovits, WPI research director.]

12:45 pm – Discussion

TO REVIEW THE FULL TWO-DAY PROGRAM...posted on the Virology-Education.com website, click HERE and then on the link to Program_XMRV_final in the right margin.

http://www.virology-education.com/index.cfm/t/Program/vid/1FFCB7B8-FB88-C1D2-92C420E3BCEB0FB0
 

glenp

"and this too shall pass"
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we did it

I do think that our letters helped. I was surprised when the lady (foggy for name) at NIH had no idea that mikovits was not invited to present. NOW SHE IS I think we all had something to do with it

glen