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Øystein Fluge, MD, PhD

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Dr. Fluge has been courageous in pursuing his observations on the effects of rituximab on ME/CFS patients when that issue was not the planned focus of his investigation. He has now completed a double-blind, well-controlled, multi-center clinical trial on the effects of Rituxamab. He has continued to follow where the data lead him into cellular and […]

Jarred Younger, PhD

Jarred Younger obtained his PhD in Experimental Psychophysiology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 2003. He then completed postdoctoral fellowships in pain medicine and neuroimaging at Arizona State University and Stanford University before joining the faculty at Stanford in 2009. In 2014, he transferred to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he […]

Alain Moreau, PhD

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Dr. Alain Moreau is a Full Professor in the Faculty of Dentistry (Stomatology Department), cross-appointed to the Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine Department in the Faculty of Medicine at Université de Montréal. He served as Director of Research and Chief Scientific Officer of Sainte-Justine University Hospital (2013-2016). He is currently Director of The Network for Canadian […]

Hany Zayed, PhD

Hany Zayed, Ph.D. is the head of Data Science Solutions group at Rigel Pharmaceuticals. He has more than 25 years’ experience in statistical analysis and consulting including design of clinical studies, data analysis and results interpretation. Hany has extensive experience in strategic clinical research including due diligence evaluations, post-approval clinical trials and disease/product registries. His […]

Deborah Rose, MD

Dr. Rose is a psychiatrist in private practice in Palo Alto, California. She has over 40 years of experience in treating posttraumatic stress disorder, both acute PTSD and complex PTSD. She has developed and published a model for psychodynamic psychotherapy of PTSD and has published articles and book chapters on these subjects. She has taught […]

R.P. Channing Rodgers, MD

R.P. Channing Rodgers is currently a professor at UCSF with a focus on informatics research and training. Previously, he was a clinical officer at the FDA in the office of Orphan Product Development, where he leveraged informatics to identify overlooked therapies for rare diseases, created a network-based course for small clinical trials, and reviewed grant […]

Joseph Morin

Joseph Morin is Co-Founder / CEO Social Rewards – a Social Media based marketing platform. Prior to founding Social Rewards, Joseph served as Vice President of Search and Social Marketing for Fly.com (a Travelzoo (NASDAQ:TZOO) company) and also served as Vice President of Strategic Marketing for UsedCars.com where as a Principal, he was instrumental in […]

Patti Linsley, Secretary

Ms. Linsley is a senior vice president of Crescent Capital Group LP. She is responsible for directing Crescent’s charitable giving activities. She is also responsible for coordinating Crescent’s annual Partners Conference. Before taking this role in the company, she managed the Human Resources department for 24 years. Prior to joining the Crescent team, Ms. Linsley […]

Kimberly Hicks, Treasurer

As a Partner and Co-Founder of KMT Partners, and CEO of her own firm, Ms. Hicks provides consulting and advisory services to boards, investors, and management teams on building value and sustainability for profit and non-profit organizations and is currently focused on projects in the healthcare industry. Having recently served as Chief Administrative Officer of […]

Linda Tannenbaum, Fondatrice & Présidente- Directrice Générale

Linda Tannenbaum est fondatrice et présidente-directrice générale de l’Open Medicine Foundation (OMF), un organisme indépendant à but non lucratif voué au financement et à la facilitation de la recherche scientifique ouverte et collaborative en vue de faire des percées cliniques pour les maladies chroniques complexes, comme l’encéphalomyélite myalgique/le syndrome de fatigue chronique (EM/SFC). Mme Tannenbaum […]

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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.
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.
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.