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May Momentum Launches TODAY: Webcast Schedule Announced!

May Momentum Launches TODAY! 

Today, May 1, 2022, marks the first day of our annual May Momentum campaign! In recognition of May ME/CFS Awareness month, this campaign is a special effort by OMF and OMFCA  to increase awareness of multi-system chronic complex diseases (msCCD) and energize fundraising efforts.

This year we are excited to announce a new webcast series, “May Momentum Tuesdays,” to update you on the progress of the OMF Collaborative Research Network!

Every Tuesday during May, we will be sharing new, exclusive video interviews with Directors of the OMF Collaborative Research Centers (CRC)s. Don’t miss out! Videos will be uploaded to YouTube, our website, and shared via e-newsletter every Tuesday in May. These recordings will remain available to watch at your convenience.

 

 

May Momentum Tuesdays Schedule: 

May 3, 2022 – Jonas Bergquist, MD, PhD, OMF Chief Medical Officer, Director of the Uppsala CRC

May 10, 2022 – Alain Moreau, PhD, Director of the Montreal CRC

May 17, 2022 – Christopher W. Armstrong, PhD, Director of the Melbourne Collaborative

May 24, 2022 – Wenzhong Xiao, PhD, Co-Director of The Ronald G. Tompkins Harvard CRC, Director of the Computational Research Center for Complex Diseases

May 31, 2022 – David Systrom, MD, Co-Director of The Ronald G. Tompkins Harvard CRC

 

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Why take part in this year’s 2022 May Momentum campaign? Inga, a person with ME/CFS, shares why she is supporting May Momentum, (and you should too!) Watch the video now!

Please help us build momentum by giving today. Your gift, of any amount, gets us closer to breakthroughs in research, medical education, and treatment trials.

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Want to take your donation to the next level? Please consider becoming a monthly donor on this first day of May Momentum! Your monthly contribution ensures that OMFCA has the resources necessary to fulfill our mission to end multisystem chronic complex diseases (msCCD).

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Can’t donate? No problem! There are many ways you can join in on the momentum. We invite you to find an option that works best for you:

 www.omfcanada.ngo/maymomentum2022 

Thank you for your support.
We are so grateful to have you as part of our OMFCA Family! ♥

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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.