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Over $1.8 million raised to advance our mission 🔬

Thank you! OMF family of donors contributed over $1.8 million during Triple Giving Tuesday Through the generosity of our supporters worldwide, Open Medicine Foundation is pleased to share that we raised over $1.8 million during our Triple Giving Tuesday campaign! That’s over $1.8 million dollars dedicated to ending ME/CFS and related multisystem chronic, complex diseases.  Your […]

An Update from Dr. Chris Armstrong, Director of the Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration

An Update from Dr. Chris Armstrong, Director of the Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration Final day of #TripleGivingTuesday! Thanks to the generosity of our supporters worldwide, we have surpassed our original fundraising goal for Triple Giving Tuesday OMF — so our leadership donors have stepped up, bringing our new goal to $1,525,000. Today, November 30, is your last […]

Make 6x the Impact Through Facebook Matching Gift!

Make 6x the impact through Facebook matching gift! Exciting news! When you donate to OMF’s Facebook Fundraiser tomorrow, Tuesday, November 30, 2021, (International Giving Tuesday), your gift of any amount will be matched by 6x!  Tomorrow only, Facebook will match up to $8 million in donations — for the first $2 million, they will match 100% […]

Grateful for you 💗

  We would like to take a moment to acknowledge just how thankful we are to have you as a part of our OMF family.  Your support fills us with gratitude, your resilience inspires us, and your investment makes our research possible. We are working every day, around the world, to find treatments and a cure […]

Our #TripleGivingTuesday goal is now $1 million!

New matching donors raise the #TripleGivingTuesday goal to $1 million! OMF is thrilled to announce that two new matching gift donors have stepped up with matching gifts totaling $200,000, raising our TRIPLE GIVING TUESDAY OMF goal to $1,000,000! If you have already donated to our Triple Giving Tuesday campaign, thank you! Nearly 1200 donors have already […]

Interview with OMF Ambassador and person with ME/CFS, Jennie Jacques

“ME/CFS is a silent assassin and it’s vicious.” A #TripleGivingTuesday exclusive interviewwith OMF Ambassador and person with ME/CFS, Jennie Jacques Open Medicine Foundation is proud to have ambassadors who use their influential voices to call attention to our mission. Accomplished English actress Jennie Jacques,  known for many TV and movie roles, including The History Channel’s […]

NEW interview with Karin Alvtegen, OMF Ambassador & bestselling author!

#TripleGivingTuesday Ambassador Spotlight: NEW interview with Karin Alvtegen, OMF Ambassador & bestselling author! OMF Ambassador Karin Alvtegen is celebrated as one of Scandinavia’s most widely read and appreciated authors. With her talent recognized around the globe, her bestselling books have been translated into more than 35 different languages. By 2013, Karin was rising as an […]

We’re increasing our #TripleGivingTuesday goal!

We’re increasing our Triple Giving Tuesday goal! OMF is thrilled to announce two additional anonymous matching gift donors have stepped up with matching gifts totaling $200,000! This means that our new TRIPLE GIVING TUESDAY OMF goal is $800,000! If you have already donated to our Triple Giving Tuesday campaign, thank you! Nearly 800 donors have already […]

OMF funds new treatment-focused project

#TripleGivingTuesday Research Update: OMF Funds New Treatment-Focused Project From the desk of Ronald Tompkins, MD, ScDChief Medical Officer, Open Medicine Foundation About the Project As we reach the midway point of #TripleGivingTuesday, I’m thrilled to share with you the details of promising research at the Harvard ME/CFS Collaboration intended to open up an unprecedented treatment […]

Influencer Rea Strawhill talks chronic illness advocacy online!

Creating safe space for people with chronic illness on social media: An interview with advocate & person with ME: Rea Strawhill As part of this year’s Triple Giving Tuesday campaign, we are honored to highlight the work of chronic illness advocate Rea Strawhill, who uses social media to boldly raise awareness of ME/CFS and related chronic, complex diseases.  With […]

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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.