Mt Sinai PEM Study Now Recruiting
August 14, 2023
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Dr. Natelson at Mt. Sinai is recruiting people to study PEM. Reimbursement for travel and time will be available.
ME Research Actions
#MEAction aims to grow the scientific field through outreach, education, and fellowship opportunities for young investigators, and by empowering patients to understand, engage with and participate in research.
How to get involved
Researchers and Clinicians
- If you’re a researcher interested in learning more about this field, start here to browse a list of resources.
- If you’re currently in the field, we’d love to support you by disseminating information about your work to the community by:
– Writing about your research for our website.
– Getting the word out about your currently enrolling research study.
– Helping with press outreach around your forthcoming research publication. - We’re also always looking for researchers and students to contribute to MEpedia, our crowd-sourced encyclopedia on the science and history of ME.
To learn more, email [email protected].
Patients & community
There are so many ways you can help support research and the generation and dissemination of scientific knowledge about ME.
- You can contribute to our MEpedia project.
- You can write articles about science for our website, and support our scientific outreach and field-growing efforts.
- You can also sign up for our newsletter, follow us on Twitter, and join one of our Facebook groups to keep up to date about currently enrolling studies.
Contact [email protected] to learn more!
Enroll in a Research Study
Be part of designing UWS research into ME and long COVID
February 3, 2022
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UPDATE: The research team have let us know that they’ve received a huge response to this request and they now have the information they need. They’ll be in touch with people individually if they are eligible to participate in the study. If you got involved, thanks for your support! Researchers at the University of the
Stanford study (no longer enrolling)
October 19, 2021
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Who: Ron Davis’s lab at Stanford University is conducting a functional microbiome study in collaboration with Harvard University and Vassar College. They are looking for severely Ill, primarily bed-bound patients within the United States to participate. What: Participants will be asked to provide a one-time fecal swab which can be collected at home and sent
Investigating the impact of Covid-19 on ME – Survey
March 22, 2021
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Please help #MEAction UK and #MEAction Scotland by taking part in this survey to find out the effect that Covid-19 has on people with ME. Take the survey We are working in collaboration with Action for ME to gather evidence on the impact of Covid-19 on our community. We have heard many stories from people
Impacts of Shift Work on Chronic Conditions
March 18, 2021
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Who: Dr. Rachael Blasiman and Hayley Shasteen at Kent State University are interested in shift workers and people with chronic conditions. You may still participate if you do not fit in either category. What: Participation is anonymous and involves taking a survey that will take approximately 30 minutes. The survey will ask questions about shift
ME/CFS International Family Impact Study
March 16, 2021
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Who: Dr. Nina Muirhead and the Study Team at Cardiff University, United Kingdom have developed a survey with two questionnaires, one for the patient and one for a life partner or family member. If you cannot be together to complete it, you can save and return. What: An international research study, looking at the impact
Enrolling: International ME/CFS Family Impact Study
January 26, 2021
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This online international ME/CFS Family Impact Study looks at the quality of life of patients and their family members.
Enrolling studies: Internet-Based Participation
February 11, 2020
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What: Researchers at Southern Connecticut State University are currently enrolling individuals in a study that will examine an intervention app for people living with ME/CFS. This app monitors daily perceived and expended energy and fatigue levels. Participants will be asked to complete an online survey about their health history, ME/CFS symptomology, as well as current
Enrolling: Naviaux Lab Metabolomics Study
July 21, 2019
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Who: Looking for adult women with ME, Lyme’s Disease (post-treatment), or healthy controls that are currently living in Southern California or live within two hours of San Diego. Note that you will need to avoid food for three hours prior to your blood draw. What: Participants for the new Naviaux Lab Metabolomics Study are needed!
Enrolling: EDS Genetics Study
May 22, 2019
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What: The Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) Society is recruiting individuals to participate in a genetic evaluation study. ME/CFS and EDS have a range of similarities and overlap. EDS is a connective tissue disorder in which musculoskeletal pain, joint pain/hypermobility, and fragile skin are considered common manifestations. Who: 1000 individuals with Hypermobile EDS as well as their family
Research News
NIH Must Not Overlook Evidence of Exercise Harm
Long COVID Exercise study must address safety, efficacy concerns.
March 22, 2023
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MEAction questions Long COVID exercise study’s safety, efficacy
Calls for immediate public release of RECOVER’s clinical trial design
March 6, 2023
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Infection-associated chronic disease experts needed at ARPA-H
Congress launched ARPA-H (the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health) this past March to focus on high-risk, high-reward research projects with the goal to solve intractable health problems. As ARPA-H is in the process of hiring its first cohort of program managers, #MEAction and a coalition of chronic disease advocacy groups have published an open
November 22, 2022
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Long COVID’s U.S. Economic Impact Est. $140-$600 Billion Annually
Post-viral conditions like ME/CFS provide guidance for estimating the economic impact of Long COVID.
October 7, 2022
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Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Complexities of Vaccines and Chronic Illness
It has been over a year since the COVID-19 vaccine became available, and a subset of people with myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) are reporting adverse effects from getting vaccines and boosters from all manufacturers. There are also rare reports of people without pre-existing conditions developing Long COVID and ME/CFS symptoms after getting
September 1, 2022
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New T-Cell Research at the University of Massachusetts
#MEAction’s Director of Scientific and Medical Outreach, Jaime Seltzer, sat down with Dr. Liisa Selin, MD, PhD, and Dr. Anna Gil, PhD, recipients of an R01 grant to research immune system dysregulation in people with ME/CFS. Selin, a professor of pathology and a person with ME herself, and Gil, a viral immunologist, comprise the two-person
May 18, 2022
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Exciting news about Mayo Clinic!
We’ve got some very exciting news this week! Clinicians working at the Long COVID clinic at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Rochester, Minnesota met with #MEAction to discuss treatment, research and improved community engagement for people with ME! They reached out to us because they were interested in engaging with a national patient-led organization with strong
May 17, 2022
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ME/CFS on TV (Part 3)
RETURN TO PART 1 OF THIS SERIES HERE ME/CFS ON THE ITALIAN TV SCREEN: A VIRTUOUS MODEL by Giada Da Ros Through sundry television spaces (news, fiction, talk shows), the ME/CFS community challenged existing political, medical, and philosophical approaches to the illness (and to maladies in general). The community sought to re-appropriate the discourse, fight
April 8, 2022
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ME/CFS On TV (Part 2)
RETURN TO PART 1 OF THIS SERIES HERE “THAT’S WHY THEY DON’T BELIEVE YOU, YOU DON’T LOOK SICK!”: FICTIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ME/CFS by Giada Da Ros Sociologists emphasize the importance of social and cultural representation of social and cultural representation of chronic and emerging disease, both for individual and collective behavior. “(T)he fact that people
March 3, 2022
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Be part of designing UWS research into ME and long COVID
UPDATE: The research team have let us know that they’ve received a huge response to this request and they now have the information they need. They’ll be in touch with people individually if they are eligible to participate in the study. If you got involved, thanks for your support! Researchers at the University of the
February 3, 2022
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