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Screening starting for ME/CFS patients and controls
UPDATE (04-2019): The recruitment flyer has been revised with the new IRB approval number. Please navigate to the flyer link below to retrieve the newest version.
Now that the IRB protocols have been approved, the recruitment and screening of ME/CFS patients and low-active control subjects will begin. To learn more about the process and what determines your eligibility, and to print a flyer to help us recruit participants, please see ME/CFS Recruitment flyer for Ithaca and Los Angeles areas. The total time commitment to participate is about 5 hours, excluding travel to and from the testing site.
Invest in ME Research Conference
Maureen Hanson joined other researchers, physicians, patient groups and journalists from around the world at the 13th conference to advance ME/CFS research. Here is a link to the full agenda.
InvestinME is producing a DVD of the presentations that can be purchased soon. An announcement will appear on the home page of their website.
SMCI Chronicle highlights Dr. Hanson and Center
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.
America’s Hidden Health Crisis
To celebrate ME/CFS International Awareness Day on May 12, clinical core Co-Director Betsy Keller joins Maureen Hanson and faculty from the University of Rochester and a patient advocate on an expert panel for AMERICA’S HIDDEN HEALTH CRISIS: What Clinicians and Others Need to Know about ME/CFS — as Documented in the Award-Winning Film Unrest and Shared Experience with New York Experts. MORE INFO
Advancing the ME/CFS Research Agenda
The first Canadian Collaborative Team Conference held in Montréal, Quebec on May 3-5, 2018 brought together researchers, clinicians, patients and advocacy organizations to advance the ME/CFS research agenda from basic research to clinical practice. The conference was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and other stakeholders to address one of the most pressing medical mysteries of our time, with millions of individuals afflicted by this devastating illness.
The agenda was organized and driven by a quest for increased collaboration, with hopes to leverage the collective knowledge and unite pockets of innovation to transform the research landscape in a commitment to improve the health of patients suffering from ME/CFS in Canada and around the world, according to Continue reading “Advancing the ME/CFS Research Agenda”
Regional Lecture Series at Cayuga Medical Center on ME/CFS
In her talk entitled “Current Clinical Diagnostic Criteria and Knowledge of the Biological Basis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue (ME/CFS) Syndrome” @DrMaureenHanson shared recommendations to medical personnel, nurses and physicians, who received continuing education credit.
The participants, who attended in person and online, learned to utilize the clinical diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS recommended by the National Institute of Medicine. Dr. Hanson shed light on the current scientific information available about the causes and effects of the disease, and shared ongoing research to develop an objective diagnostic test and treatments for the disease. The audience engaged in lively discussion following the presentation.
A New Era of ME/CFS Research
The Solve ME/CFS Initiative gathered preeminent leaders from research centers, federal health agencies, ME/CFS clinics, and the biopharmaceutical industry in Washington DC in October 2017 to participate in SMCI’s Second Annual Discovery Forum. Fifteen presentations from Discovery Forum 2017 are now available to the public, including A New Era of ME/CFS Research with Dr. Maureen Hanson, Professor of Molecular Biology & Genetics at Cornell University.
Panel discussion follows “Unrest” film at Ithaca College
The movie “Unrest” will be shown in Hill Center Room 104 of Ithaca College on Tuesday March 27, 2018. No fee to attend. Professors Betsy Keller and Maureen Hanson will hold a panel discussion about ME/CFS after the movie.
Official NIH kickoff meeting brings together collaborators
The National Institutes of Health headquarters hosted the leads of the recently funded ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center awards and partner organizations. The purpose of this kickoff meeting was to get to know each other and to begin to discuss collaborative projects that could be undertaken that would leverage each institutional expertise. After introductions, each awardee institution presented an overview of the research proposed, and an executive committee was formed to establish the framework within which data will be shared. Continue reading “Official NIH kickoff meeting brings together collaborators”
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis article in ASBMB Today
The lengthy article features interviews with caregiver Amy Mooney, Hillary Johnson, Rivka Solomon, Linda Tannenbaum, Ron Davis, Mary Dimmock, NIH’s Joe Breen, and Maureen Hanson. Read the full article here.