Hi guys,
OMF-funded ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center
at Stanford
An End of Year Message from Ronald W. Davis, PhD, and Janet L. Dafoe, PhD
We have accomplished so much with the amazing donations generously given to OMF and we are grateful. We have collected huge amounts of data in our Severely Ill Patients Study, which has yielded lots of information and hypotheses. We have developed 4 promising potential diagnostic tests, including the nanoneedle, and we are working on several more. We have published a paper on Red Blood Cell Deformability. We have developed the Metabolic Trap hypothesis, made much progress on testing it, and published it in a theoretical paper. We have begun collecting data on both toxic heavy metals and essential metals, which is beginning to suggest alterations that may contribute to symptoms. We have collected myriads of multi-omic data on families. These studies have already shown us a large number of molecular alterations in patients, but science is slow, and frustratingly underfunded. The rate-limiting step is always funding. We could do so much more and get answers faster with more funding. We have written many grants to NIH, but so far only one has been funded. Don't believe anyone who says NIH isn't funding ME/CFS because they don't get good grants!
In addition to funding our center at Stanford, OMF has also funded two new centers, one at Harvard and one at Uppsala University in Sweden. These centers are making progress on analyzing muscle cells and the molecular biology of spinal fluid in ME/CFS patients. (Read More….)
Donate to support OMF-funded research.
www.omf.ngo
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OMF-funded ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center
at Stanford
We have accomplished so much with the amazing donations generously given to OMF and we are grateful. We have collected huge amounts of data in our Severely Ill Patients Study, which has yielded lots of information and hypotheses. We have developed 4 promising potential diagnostic tests, including the nanoneedle, and we are working on several more. We have published a paper on Red Blood Cell Deformability. We have developed the Metabolic Trap hypothesis, made much progress on testing it, and published it in a theoretical paper. We have begun collecting data on both toxic heavy metals and essential metals, which is beginning to suggest alterations that may contribute to symptoms. We have collected myriads of multi-omic data on families. These studies have already shown us a large number of molecular alterations in patients, but science is slow, and frustratingly underfunded. The rate-limiting step is always funding. We could do so much more and get answers faster with more funding. We have written many grants to NIH, but so far only one has been funded. Don't believe anyone who says NIH isn't funding ME/CFS because they don't get good grants!
In addition to funding our center at Stanford, OMF has also funded two new centers, one at Harvard and one at Uppsala University in Sweden. These centers are making progress on analyzing muscle cells and the molecular biology of spinal fluid in ME/CFS patients. (Read More….)
Donate to support OMF-funded research.
www.omf.ngo
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