Newsletter February 2021
An Update from Chris Armstrong, Director, Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration The Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration is the fifth and newest OMF funded collaborative research center. After making
Open Medicine Foundation Australia Ltd (OMFAU) is a regional branch entity of Open Medicine Foundation, and is part of the largest, concerted worldwide nonprofit effort to diagnose, treat and find a cure for ME/CFS.
OMF Australia is a Public Ancillary Fund, established for the purpose of promoting and funding research into chronic complex diseases, and supports the Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration.
Established in 2020, the Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration is directed by Christopher W. Armstrong, PhD.
The Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration seeks to characterize the unifying biological pathways of ME/CFS that relate to the shared disease experience between patients while also understanding each patients unique biology that create variation in disease experience and severity.
Chris Armstrong, PhD, is most well known for his research using metabolomics to observe biochemical alterations in ME/CFS patients. He began his work in this field at the University of Melbourne, beginning a PhD project to apply metabolomics to study Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and published his first ME/CFS metabolomics study on blood and urine in 2015.
Since then Chris has set up collaborative efforts to apply metabolomics to immunological experiments on ME/CFS, observing how metabolism may relate to immune cell function. He has also focused on longitudinal research in ME/CFS while looking to extend metabolic capabilities across the field of ME/CFS to help collate different patient groups.
An Update from Chris Armstrong, Director, Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration The Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration is the fifth and newest OMF funded collaborative research center. After making
TRIPLE GIVING TUESDAY OMF LAUNCHES TODAYWith big news from Australia! Welcome to the first day of our 2020 Triple Giving Tuesday Campaign! I’m thrilled to
OMF Scientist Receives Grant Funding for ME/CFS Study Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) is thrilled to share that our staff science liaison, Christopher W. Armstrong, PhD,
The study aims to establish an analytical workflow for outlier analysis in ME/CFS and develop a software program to rapidly identify these potential anomalies.
The study aims to establish a condensed personalized research protocol that can be used to characterize ME/CFS in individual patients as it pertains to all their unique biological aspects, interacting with a complex chronic disease.
This study’s goal is to broadly evaluate B cell subsets, metabolism, viability, receptors, and antibodies in people with ME/CFS.
This proposal seeks to understand pathological mechanisms of pediatric ME/CFS (13 to 18 years old).
Nitrogen Metabolism and Testing Nitrogen Hypothesis in ME/CFS STUDY AIM This project aims to test the nitrogen hypothesis, which is that damaging, nitrogen-containing by-products of
To carry out these ambitious projects, Dr. Armstrong is establishing networks and collaborations extending to USA, UK, Sweden, and other Australian institutions.
University of Melbourne, Australia
Christopher Armstrong, PhD
Paul Gooley, PhD
Neil McGregor, PhD
Natalie Thomas, PhD
Kathy Huang
David Ascher, PhD
Elisha Josev, PhD
Sarah Knight, PhD
Adam Scheinberg, MD
David Stroud, PhD
Stanford University, USA
Ronald Davis, PhD
Robert Phair, PhD
Laurel Crosby, PhD
Julie Wilhelmy
Amit Saha, PhD
Layla Cervantes
Anna Okumu
Mike Snyder, PhD
Ryan Kellogg, PhD
Jaime Seltzer
Uppsala University, Sweden
Jonas Bergquist, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Ronald Tompkins, MD, ScD
Wenzhong Xiao, PhD
University of Montreal, Canada
Alain Moreau, PhD
Open Medicine Foundation
Linda Tannenbaum
UC San Diego, USA
Robert Naviaux, MD, PhD
University of Alabama Birmingham, USA
Jarred Younger, PhD
University College London, UK
Jo Cambridge, PhD
La Trobe University, Australia
Sarah Annesley, PhD
Paul Fisher, PhD
Daniel Missailidis
Australian National University, Australia
Brett Lidbury, PhD
Alice Richardson, PhD
Monash University, Australia
Joanne Fielding, PhD
Meaghan Clough, PhD
Macquarie University, Australia
Gilles Guillemin, PhD
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