The simple answer is yes - but we do not always get what we ask for (e.g. another round of ring fenced money for ME/CFS research)
I have fairly regular contact that involves various people who are involved with both ME/CFS at the MRC and the MRC Neurosciences Board (where most ME/CFS research sits)
In fact, I will be at a meeting at the MRC next week that is bringing tougher various groups, including NIH, who are involved in funding ME/CFS research
CS
I have fairly regular contact that involves various people who are involved with both ME/CFS at the MRC and the MRC Neurosciences Board (where most ME/CFS research sits)
In fact, I will be at a meeting at the MRC next week that is bringing tougher various groups, including NIH, who are involved in funding ME/CFS research
CS
US activists have had good results talking to NIH Director Francis Collins.
Do the senior people at the MRC get that it's not a behavioural illness?
Will they give research money to the likes of Mark Edwards or Julia Newton rather than the endless social science questionnaires of Esther Crawley?