Announcing OMF's First ME/CFS Clinical Trial!

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Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS), Fibromyalgia and Long COVID.

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Empower Change: Support May Momentum!

Every May, Open Medicine Foundation & Open Medicine Foundation Canada (OMFCA) rallies our community to raise funds and awareness in honor of International May 12 ME/CFS Awareness Day.

Our goal is to shed light on the devastation caused by ME/CFS, Long COVID, and related diseases, and fundraise to keep up the momentum of OMF funded research. This is why we named our campaign “May Momentum.”

Since we first launched May Momentum in 2017, we have raised more than $31 million thanks to our fundraising campaigns!

So, as we launch our fifth annual May Momentum campaign, we are asking for your support.

 

Here are some ways you can get involved:

  • Donate: Make a recurring or one-time donation to OMF. Your generosity will help us continue our mission to support groundbreaking research for ME/CFS, Long COVID, and related diseases.

 

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  •  Launch an OMFCA fundraiser: Start a personal fundraising campaign on social media or through other platforms to engage your friends and family. Every dollar counts, and your efforts will directly impact OMF’s ability to fund research.
  • Sign up for OMF’s StudyME, a new global registry that connects individuals who want to participate in research studies with the researchers that conduct them. StudyME is free, and takes less than 5 minutes to join. No personal medical information needed! Sign up now.
  • Spread the word: Use your voice and social media platforms to raise awareness about ME/CFS, Long COVID, and the importance of supporting OMFCA. Share our posts, create your own content, or simply tell others about May Momentum. Be sure to use
    the hashtag     #MayMomentum2023.
  • Share your story: If you or someone you know is affected by ME/CFS or Long COVID, share your story with your network. Personal stories can be powerful tools for raising awareness and inspiring others to take action. You can also submit your story here
    for the chance to be featured by us.

 

Together, we can make a difference in the lives of millions of people suffering from ME/CFS, Long COVID, and related diseases. Let’s keep the momentum going throughout May and beyond!

 

 

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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.