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From a Solve email. Solve M.E. is accepting applications to study ME/CFS and Long Covid from April 9 – May 23, 2022. Through the Ramsay Program, Solve M.E. invests in research studies in ME/CFS or Long Covid with a particular emphasis on engaging young investigators and researchers new to the...

Introduction The aim of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme is to ensure that high quality research information on the clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and broader impact of healthcare treatments and tests are produced in the most efficient way for those who plan, provide...

Great video - one of the best I've seen. Winston has real skill. Maybe we can use it to our advantage. I'd like to see a UK version.

Background An estimated 260,000 people in the UK are living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS); this neurological condition has been described as ‘a serious, chronic, complex, and multisystem disease that frequently and dramatically limits the activities of affected...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-invest-375-million-in-neurodegenerative-disease-research

Article in Private Eye 1557, 01/10/2021.

A person has contacted me to see if I could assist in finding the source/complete document of the application to MRC for the PACE trial. First page of the relevant document is in the picture. I can be contacted via DM or tomkindlon{a}hotmail.com

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17441692.2021.1922731 Most public and non-profit organisations that fund health research provide the majority of their funding in the form of grants. The calls for grant applications are often untargeted, such that a wide variety of applications may...

Background: Gender bias has been an ongoing issue in health care, examples being underrepresentation of women in health studies, trivialization of women's physical complaints, and discrimination in the awarding of research grants. We examine here a different issue—gender disparity when it comes...

I haven't searched for more info on this yet. https://www.bristol.ac.uk/academic-child-health/grants/

Looking at figures such as those from the NIH, ME/CFS is receiving far less funding than it should, based on disease burden. I would like to start a discussion on why ME/CFS is receiving so little research funding. Finding what the obstacles are, might help to improve the situation. Evelien and...

NIH Funding for ME in 2020: Falling Flat http://occupyme.net/2020/11/06/nih-funding-for-me-in-2020-falling-flat/

Solve ME/CFS tweeted this today:https://twitter.com/PlzSolveCFS/status/1319407326621827078 I wanted a bit more info so I searched their website and found this (scroll down past the invisible disabilities week info)...

The successful applicants for Australia’s $3m ME/CFS Targeted Call for Research (TCR) have been announced. The successful projects: Professor Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik Griffith University Grant: $1.46m Project title: Ion channel dysfunction in the pathophysiology of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/...

Does anyone have a good overview of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for ME/CFS research and how much money each grant is receiving? If I recall correctly, Jason/Katz got funding to follow up on the adolescents who got ME/CFS following EBV, and Younger got a grant to test...

I thought it might be useful to have a thread on ME/CFS news for the Netherlands, similar to the threads we have on Scandinavian countries. If there's some really important news we could make a separate thread for it and link to it in this general thread that keeps an overview of all ME/CFS...

Dutch study on functional complaints (including CFS) receives €4 million in European funding "Some people particularly benefit from physical therapy, while others are more in need of support from a psychologist." https://www.dvhn.nl/groningen/Als-de-dokter-niks-kan-vinden-25856002.html...

https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2020/07/22/universitys-covid-19-campaign-gives-100k-funding-boost-to-vital-research-projects/

In Baroness Julia Cumberlege report on the pelvic mesh etc scandal, calls for doctors to have to clearly declare any funding from industry. If the BPS doctors involvement with the insurance industry, for all these decades, had really been out there, clearly declared for all to see, with all...