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All gifts made during Triple Giving Tuesday support the largest worldwide nonprofit effort to fund and facilitate open and collaborative research into ME/CFS and related multisystem, chronic, complex diseases, including Post-Treatment Lyme Disease, Fibromyalgia, and Long COVID. 

That means donations received from October 19, 2021 until November 30, 2021 will be triple matched up to $1,525,000. So if you donate $10, you really donate $30!

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What is Triple Giving Tuesday OMF?

#TripleGivingTuesdayOMF is OMF’s most critical fundraising event of the year and an opportunity for you to maximize the impact of your investment in groundbreaking biomedical research.

Donations made to OMF any day of the week between October 19, 2021 and International Giving Tuesday on November 30, 2021 will have the chance to be triple matched up to $1,525,000 by very generous donors.

Regardless of how, when, or where you donate, your gift will be tripled. Every day of the week.

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“OMF does amazing research and education about ME/CFS. Without them, we would still be where we were decades ago. Thank you for all you do to help people with ME/CFS!”
Chantelle
Chantelle
“Open Medicine Foundation is a Grade A nonprofit, truly dedicated to the cause of finding effective treatments and ultimately a cure for ME/CFS and other complex chronic diseases. Every dollar is going towards funding cutting edge researchers in top institutions around the world. OMF gives me hope that they will soon end ME/CFS.”
Eric
Eric
“OMF’s work has impacted my life by giving me so much hope that I might get my life back one day.”
Ellen
Ellen
“Susan and I support OMF and hope to bring awareness of their work to others whose lives have been devastated by ME/CFS. We also want to encourage those suffering from this disease to support the organization with time and resources if you can.”
Beth
Beth
“I’ve had ME/CFS since 1980. OMF's collaboration with researchers and with those who suffer from this disease is amazing! After decades of suffering, we’re finally being taken seriously. I encourage those who can to donate to OMF and this urgently needed research.”
Joanne
Joanne
“There are around 20,000 of us sick with ME/CFS in Sweden alone, from mild to very seriously affected. ME/CFS can affect anyone: adults, young people, and children alike. Only a fraction of us receive adequate care and help. Please contribute to the ME/CFS research at Open Medicine Foundation.”
Karin Alvtegen
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“My wife has been sick with ME for about five years. Like most people with ME/CFS, she cannot work and has given up most things from her previous life. OMF does top-quality and groundbreaking research. They are the best hope for the millions of people who have had their lives upended by ME/CFS.”
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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.