In a first for ME/CFS research, NIH launched a creative grant expansion program to jump start ME/CFS research in the short term by supplementing current grants.
In essence, the NIH is posting an open call for research scientists with proposals that may fall under the purview of the original grant for the NIH’s intramural ME/CFS study.
Meet Dr Brett Lidbury, biometrics researcher at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.
Dr Rebecca Goldin, blogging for Sense About Statistics, has said that flaws in the design of the PACE trial “were enough to doom its results from the start”. Her 7,000-word post described the study’s design and the extensive changes to the planned analyses. Dr Goldin, who is the Director of the organisation, writes, “The study
In an invited post on UK charity Action for ME’s blog, Professor George Davey Smith of Bristol University has told patients that the UK’s planned, major ME/CFS project, the Grand Challenge could “herald a new era in ME research”. Action for ME’s CEO, Sonya Chowdhury, described the project, which was announced at October’s UK CFS/ME
After the March 8th telebriefing with the NIH, many advocates in the ME community still came away with questions. Billie Moore, NJME/CFSA Advocacy Chair, and member of the USAWGaAnd CDC’s TDW Workgroup, was one of them. Though representatives of the NIH spoke at great length about the big picture of the new ME/CFS efforts that the organization is
New US paper says it is critical that scientists world-wide develop consensus on how to identify and classify chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis patients using clinical and research criteria.
At the NIH tele-briefing on Tuesday, March 8th, Dr Walter Koroshetz, Director of NINDS set out the NIH’s strategy for tackling ME/CFS. He said it won’t be an easy task ‘else it would have been solved long ago’, and it wasn’t clear where the solution will come from. The NIH’s focus will be on attracting
On Tuesday, March 8th, NIH held a one hour tele-briefing to answer the community’s questions about their plans for the intramural study and the ME/CFS program. What follows is a full transcript of the conference call. You can view the transcript and listen to the audio of the call on the NIH website. On the call were
In November 2015, six lectures on ME were held in Stavanger, Norway. The event was filmed and made into a DVD which is now available for an international audience with English subtitles for the Norwegian lectures.
