Stanford/OMF Community Symposium and ME/CFS research in the news! (Palo Alto Online)

[Alvin2]

No, his lab won't be shut down. It just will be more difficult. Underscores the urgent need for donations.

Aye carumba

 

[Daisymay]

Ron was told by NIH that the grant was terminated because reducing the cost of healthcare is not a priority of NIH. It was terminated in spite of a very good score. The good score made it so it would've been funded. But NIH officials intervened and decided to terminate it in spite of its score.

How utterly insane that the potential to reduce the cost of healthcare ( and to cheaply diagnose loads of physiological parameters in a wide range if diseases) isn't a priority, especially when money is short.

Everything crossed for Ron getting NIH grant for ME research.

 

[user9876]

The article says:

Davis is now seeking private funding. He estimated he needs about $5 million to gear up enough people to analyze data the devices have already generated, and he needs to bring in post-doctoral researchers who would want enough funding to stick around for a few years.

Would there be a way to crowdsource the analysis? That is get lots of people to look at the data and then have ways to combine the results? Or is this very specialist knowledge?

 

[Horizon]

@Janet Dafoe (Rose49)

Janet, do you think it would be worth trying to get the media to cover this outrageous statement by NIH? I wonder if their can be a campaign over this or do you think this would ultimately hurt Ron's efforts?

"Trying to reduce the cost of health care is not our priority"