Patient has made a $1M matching grant to the Mt. Sinai ME Center!

[justinreilly]

From European Society for ME on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/ESME-European-Society-for-ME/326113349124

News from Dr Enlander:

The Mount Sinai Medical Center has opened an ME/CFS clinical and research center in New York. This has been funded by a patient of Dr Derek Enlander who donated a matching grant of $1,000,000. We encourage ESME members and patients to contribute to the fund. Contact Dr Enlander at denlander@aol.com

Of course we encourage this as ESME Team to contribute funding to this new ME center in New York.

 

[maddietod]

Excellent news!

 

[Andrew]

Wow! That's fantastic!

 

[Nielk]

I'm really excited about this, especially because he is my doctor and I think very highly of him.
I hope it will be successful. The more people doing studies from different angles, the better chance we have on finding something that will make sense.

 

[Andrew]

Hmmm. They really need a dedicated website to raise money. If this is a matching fund, that means the money is only released as donations come in.

 

[livingwithcfids]

Thanks for sharing. A million dollars goes a long way! How can we donate? I don't see the fund form or any place to contribute.

 

[August59]

A big thanks to the patient of Dr. Enlander's for making such a bold matching fund donation. Matching donations of this magnitude help tremendously with much needed funding and the $1,000,000 figure is one the gets attention. Especially coming from a patient, it conveys a commitment to the research community that patients affected by this dreaeded disease the we are ready to fight the fight.

A great big thanks to this patient of Dr. Enlander!!!!!

 

[justinreilly]

Hmmm. They really need a dedicated website to raise money. If this is a matching fund, that means the money is only released as donations come in.

The patient maybe matching Mt. Sinai's contribution.

 

[Klmrav]

It is my understanding that a patient donated the money for Dr. E to collaborate with Mt. Sinai to create the ME/CFS Center. I think it is made payable to Mt. Sinai, earmarked for Dr. E and the ME/CFS Center. I'll keep my eyes open for donation specifics.