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OMF to Attend 15th Invest in ME Research International ME Conference (IIMEC15) in England!

We are excited to announce that the 15th Invest in ME Research International ME Conference 2023 (IIMEC15) and 12th International Biomedical Research into ME Colloquium 2023 are set to take place May 31- June 2 in Cambridge, England! This year, the conference plays a pivotal role in our May Momentum initiative, as it not only propels the research of ME/CFS forward but also bridges the understanding between Long COVID and ME/CFS.

We are thrilled to share that several OMF-funded researchers will be speaking at the conference, offering their unique perspectives and groundbreaking findings:

  • Wenzhong Xiao will delve into the realm of Metabolic Modeling
  • David Systrom will share insights from Invasive Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing.
  • Jonas Bergquist will discuss the connection between Post-COVID ME/CFS and Comparative Studies.
  • Alain Moreau will explore the transition from Long COVID to ME/CFS.
  • Rob Phair will offer perspective on his Interferon-alpha-itaconate shunt hypothesis for the pathogenesis of ME/CFS.
  • Ron Davis’s topic will be confirmed soon.


Our esteemed CEO and Founder, Linda Tannenbaum, will also be in attendance!

As part of our May Momentum campaign, we want to emphasize the importance of collaboration in scientific discovery. This conference serves as a platform for sharing knowledge and fostering partnerships, bringing together researchers from around the world. It’s through such collaboration that we can accelerate progress and bring hope to those affected by ME/CFS.

Updates on ME/CFS research from around the globe will be presented, adding to the wealth of knowledge gained from the previous two days of the BRMEC12 closed researchers Colloquium. This exchange of ideas and findings is the momentum we need to push the boundaries of our understanding and treatment of ME/CFS and related conditions.

Learn more about the 15th Annual Conference at
http://www.investinme.org/IIMEC15.shtml

Our community’s continuous support drives us forward, and we’re excited to share the progress that your contributions are making possible. Together, we’re making strides in the world of ME/CFS research, and together, we’ll continue our journey towards a world without ME/CFS, Long COVID, and related diseases.

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PS: Do you want to help speed up the research process even more? Now you can!

In case you missed it, we have launched OMF’s StudyME, a participant registry powered by StudyPages, to connect those who want to participate in research studies to the researchers who conduct them.

Stand up and be counted! Help us enroll 100,000 participants, comprising of individuals afflicted with ME/CFS, Long COVID, Fibromyalgia and related post-infection illnesses, as well as healthy volunteers. OMF’s StudyME makes recruiting faster, promotes global collaboration and will help make it easier for researchers to get grants with a large and diverse pool of participants. 


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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.
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.
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.