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May Momentum Launches Next Week with New Webcast Series!

May Momentum Launches Next Week
With New Research Updates!

Our annual May Momentum campaign begins next week on May 1, 2022!

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 so we can continue our urgent research.

Announcing New Webcast Series!

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 video interviews with Directors of the OMF Collaborative Research Centers (CRC)s, who will update the community on their most recent research projects and progress. Don’t miss out! Videos will be uploaded to YouTube, our website, and social media every Tuesday starting May 3rd, 2022 and available to watch at
your convenience. In addition to sharing updates from OMF researchers, we’ll share stories from our OMF community, news about worldwide events, and more.

If you’re on social media, don’t forget to give OMFCA a follow!
When you do, you’ll be sure to never miss a thing: 
   

 

This year is particularly special because it marks our 10th Year Anniversary. Over the years, we’ve assembled a team of world-class scientists, established 6 prestigious ME/CFS Collaborative Research Centers, and funded over 25 research studies. Our momentum has been made possible only thanks to you, our generous OMF family. We are grateful beyond words for your support.

We encourage you to stay tuned and support #MayMomentum in whatever ways you’re able. We’re working hard to make breakthroughs in research, medical education, and treatment trials. Your support in May will make a greater impact to help us achieve our ambitious goals. 

In case you missed it: check out our proudest accomplishments of the past decade, made possible by the support of our generous community.

With hope & Gratitude,

Linda Tannenbaum
OMF Founder & CEO/President 

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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.