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OMF and OMFCA ACCELERATE RESEARCH ACROSS THE GLOBE

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME / CFS) affects over 20 million people.

Established in 2012, Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) leads the largest, concerted worldwide nonprofit effort to diagnose,
treat, and prevent ME / CFS and related chronic, complex diseases such as Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS),
and Fibromyalgia.

Open Medicine Foundation Canada (OMFCA) received Charity Status from the Canada Revenue Agency on June 6, 2019.
We launched our relationship with the Collaborative Research Center at CHU Sainte-Justine /Université de Montréal,
on December 11, 2019.

OMF and OMFCA add urgency to the search for answers by driving transformational philanthropy and investments into global research. We have raised over $30 Million from private donors, and facilitated and funded the establishment of
five prestigious ME / CFS Collaborative Research Centres.

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OMF Funded Collaborative Research Centres

ME / CFS Collaborative Research CentRE

at the CHU Sainte-Justine/
Université de Montréal

Alain Moreau, PhD
Director

Clinical and scientific intervention studies

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ME / CFS Collaborative
Research Center

at Stanford

Ronald W. Davis, PhD
Director

Innovative, collaborative, multi-disciplinary research

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The Harvard
ME / CFS Collaboration

at Harvard Affiliated Hospitals

Ronald G. Tompkins, MD, ScD
Wenzhong Xiao, PhD
Co-Directors

Clinical and scientific mechanistic studies towards discovering new treatments

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ME / CFS Collaborative
Research Center

at Uppsala, Sweden

Jonas Bergquist, MD, PhD
Director

Research for biomarkers in body and brain

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Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration

Chris Armstrong, PhD
Director

Precision personalized medicine research program

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ME / CFS and Covid-19
Research Study

The five, OMF funded, ME / CFS Collaborative Research Centres have launched an international study of the possible conversion of COVID-19 patients to ME / CFS.

This study, which seeks to learn about the pathways involved in the development of ME / CFS, can lead to biomarkers, new treatments, and prevention strategies.

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Microvesicles and viral sequencing
Microvesicles are a type of extracellular vesicle that is released from the cell membrane. Vesicles are small, fluid-filled sacs or vacuoles within the body. Sequencing is a technique used to determine the exact sequence of bases (A, C, G, and T) in a DNA (or viral) molecule.
NMR Metabolomics
NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) is an instrument/tool used to perform metabolic studies, metabolic profiling, and metabolomics in biofluids and tissues for more than 40 years using magnetic fields. There is a very close connection between metabolic measurements and NMR. This connection has flourished because of NMR’s many unique strengths for characterizing complex mixtures’ chemical composition.
Proteomics
The large-scale study of proteins, which are large, complex molecules that are required for structure, function, and regulation of the human body's tissues and organs.
Autoantibodies
Antibodies that react with self-molecules and that occur in healthy individuals and are referred to as natural antibodies or autoantibodies.
Extracellular DNA for viral reactivation and Mitochondrial DNA
exDNA (extracellular DNA), exDNA is often secreted actively and is used to perform several tasks, thereby offering an attractive target or tool for biotechnological, medical, environmental, and general microbiological applications. Viruses are intracellular parasites that rely to a significant extent on the host cell for replication. Viral reactivation occurs when an active replication of the viral genome results in a lytic (degradation of the cell) infection characterized by the release of new progeny (descendant) virus particles.
Immune cell profiling
The immune system has many important regulatory roles in disease development and progression. Given the emergence of effective immune therapies, reliable predictors of response are needed. Immune cell profiling determines response by evaluating immune cell populations from treated and untreated samples. For our purposes, we will evaluate the white blood cell response to the viral infection using a process called “Cytof.”
Leukocyte Genomics
A leukocyte is a colorless cell circulating in the blood and body fluids and is involved in counteracting foreign substances and disease. A genome is all genetic material of an organism. Genomics is a biology field focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. Therefore, leukocyte genomics is the study of all genetic material of leukocytes.
Metabolomics
Metabolomics is a way to study metabolism – that is, through measuring amounts of the metabolites (small molecules) produced by our bodies as we convert food into energy and other molecules that our cells need to survive. Metabolomics technology is ‘large-scale,’ meaning that several thousand metabolites can be measured from a single sample of e.g., blood or urine.
Micro RNA
Cells use Micro RNA to control whether a particular gene is making too much, too little or the normal amount of its protein at a particular time.