The Open Medicine Foundation held their third annual collaborative team meeting on ME/CFS. Dr. Maureen Hanson joined approximately 60 other researchers at Standford University from September 4th to 6th, 2019 to discuss their latest unpublished and preliminary data on the disease. A diverse field of scientific topics were discussed as noted in the agenda.
Our collaborators at the Workwell Foundation, working with physical therapists and exercise physiologists, have published a case report in the Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal on measurement reproducibility over the two days of a two-day cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET). The report looked at the variability of CPET results from six people with and without medical diagnoses of fatiguing illnesses. All of the participants were women and matched by age and BMI. Although the authors point out that generalizations are not possible due to the low number of included subjects, the response to exercise by both individuals with ME/CFS is important to highlight.
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Now recruiting in the Los Angeles area: People with ME/CFS and healthy, inactive control participants for the NIH-funded Cornell University Collaborative Research Center study of ME/CFS. If accepted into the study, participants will complete two cardiopulmonary exercise tests over two days with blood drawn before and after each test, and wear a wrist watch device to measure physical activity for 10 days before and 10 days after the exercise tests. Exercise testing will be completed at the ID Med clinic in Torrance, CA. For more information and/or to be screened for acceptance into the study, please contact:
Jared Stevens
jared@workwellfoundation.org
209-599-7194
Our collaborators at the Workwell Foundation have put together a two-part continuing education course on ME/CFS developed for PTs, OTs, nurses, and ATCs. Part 1 covers the introduction and identification of ME/CFS and Part 2 goes into etiology and analeptic management. The content is available through MedBridge.
Dr. Maureen Hanson participated in the inaugural Harvard ME/CFS Collaboration 2019 Scientific and Public Symposium sponsored by the Open Medicine Foundation that was held in Boston, MA on June 6-7, 2019. On June 6 she presented a talk on ongoing research in the NIH-funded Cornell ME/CFS U54 Center. She also presented on June 7 at the public symposium held in a theater in nearby Somerville, MA. The talks from the public symposium have been made available by OMF. Dr. Hanson’s talk is below and the full list of talks can be found here.
InvestinME Research hosted a series of events in London with the purpose of promoting better education about ME/CFS and increasing international collaboration on ME/CFS research. The series began with the Thinking the Future Young/ECR conference on May 28th, 2019, for which Hanson lab graduate student Alexandra Mandarano received a travel scholarship to attend. Dr. Maureen Hanson attended and presented at the ninth Biomedical Research into ME Colloquium and at the public 14th Invest in ME Research Conference on May 31st.
UPDATE: Presentations and the conference report from the 14th Invest in ME Research International ME Conference are now available. Dr. Maureen Hanson‘s talk is among those uploaded and is included below. The full report is available on the InvestinME website here.
The International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) held their 2019 annual meeting in Kyoto, Japan from April 24th to 28th. Center member Dr. Ludovic Giloteaux attended the conference to network with international experts on the latest extracellular vesicle (EV) research. Dr. Giloteaux also presented some of our current EV research on cytokine and miRNA profiling of plasma EVs in ME/CFS. Check out the conference program for an overview of what information was covered.
The Solve ME/CFS Initiative’s (SMCI) Spring 2018 Solve ME/CFS Chronicle contains an article highlighting Dr. Marueen Hanson and the NIH-funded Cornell ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center. The article includes an interview with Dr. Hanson providing her perspective on ME/CFS research and more. Please see the links below to retrieve this information.
Article “Dr. Maureen Hanson: From Plant Biology to ME/CFS Champion”
Complete Solve ME/CFS Chronicle Spring 2018
Additionally, SMCI hosts an archive of all of their publications here. It is a great way to review SMCI’s publications in one location.
On January 22, 2018, PeerJ published “Eukaryotes in the gut microbiota in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome”. The publication is work done by Center participants regarding the diversity of eukaryotes in the gut microbiomes of people with ME/CFS and in healthy controls.
A recent research highlight by the Solve ME/CFS Initiative provides a detailed summary of this article. SMCI’s research summary can be viewed here.
Mandarano AH, Giloteaux L, Keller BA, Levine SM, Hanson MR. 2018. Eukaryotes in the gut microbiota in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. PeerJ 6:e4282 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4282
Clinical core co-director Dr. Betsy Keller presented on the second day of the NIH Accelerating Research on ME/CFS meeting. Dr. Keller outlined exertion intolerance in ME/CFS drawing upon her years of experience in the field. Her talk includes some preliminary data being generated from our NIH-funded Center. Dr. Keller’s complete talk can be viewed below.
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