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Announcement from Columbia.
Announcement from the NIH (covering all 3 research centres and the data centre).
Announcement from the Microbe Discovery Project.
https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/pu...yelitischronic-fatigue-syndrome-collaborativeNIH Awards $9.6 Million Grant to Columbia for a Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Collaborative Research Center
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year $9.6 million grant to the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health to create the Center for Solutions for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CfS for ME/CFS), an inter-disciplinary, inter-institutional research group dedicated to understanding the biology of the disease in order to develop effective means to diagnose, treat and prevent it. This Center will be one of three ME/CFS Collaborative Research Centers (CRCs) that will be awarded, together with a Data Management and Coordinating Center (DMCC).
As many as 2.5 million Americans have ME/CFS, a debilitating disease characterized by extreme fatigue after exertion that is not relieved by rest, and other symptoms, including muscle and joint pain and cognitive dysfunction. There are no laboratory tests for diagnosis or specific treatments for ME/CFS.
The CfS for ME/CFS is led by W. Ian Lipkin, director of CII and John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School and is one of the NIH’s CRCs for ME/CFS research. The CRCs will each conduct independent research but will also collaborate on several projects, forming a network to help advance knowledge on ME/CFS. The data will be managed by a Data Management Coordinating Center and will be shared among researchers within the CRCs and more broadly with the research community. (Read the NIH announcement.)
Announcement from the NIH (covering all 3 research centres and the data centre).
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/new...alomyelitis-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-researchNIH announces centers for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will award four grants to establish a coordinated scientific research effort on myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The total cost of the projects for fiscal year 2017 will be over $7 million, with support from multiple NIH Institutes and Centers that are part of the Trans-NIH ME/CFS Working Group.
The grants will support the creation of a consortium made up of three Collaborative Research Centers (CRC) and a Data Management Coordinating Center (DMCC). The CRCs will each conduct independent research but will also collaborate on several projects, forming a network to help advance knowledge on ME/CFS. The data will be managed by the DMCC and will be shared among researchers within the CRCs and more broadly with the research community.
“These important grants will provide a strong foundation for expanding research in ME/CFS, and lead to knowledge about the causes and ways to treat people affected by this mysterious, heartbreaking, and debilitating disease,” said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
Announcement from the Microbe Discovery Project.
http://microbediscovery.org/2017/09...centers-data-management-center-announcements/The first ever ME/CFS Collaborative Research Centers and Data Management Center that the National Institutes of Health is funding are now being announced. A hard fought milestone – this is the beginning of the development of crucial infrastructure that has been such a long time coming for the millions who have ME/CFS.
Without out any further delay, our Microbe Discovery Project team are excited and so happy to share that the Center for Infection and Immunity research team at Columbia University have been successful! Here is the full press release from the CII:...