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https://www.omf.ngo/2018/08/08/meet-laurel-crosby/

The Italian fashion blogger and business person Chiara Ferragni is offering to support good causes to celebrate her upcoming wedding. OMF are asking people to email her to request her support:

Ron Davis has been awarded several million dollars by the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to "uncover the immunological basis of ME" by examining T cell activity and related genetic factors, and by hunting for pathogens. The project start date is this month, and the end...

I hadn't heard this snippet before, https://www.omf.ngo/2018/06/13/robert-phair/

Email from Linda Tannenbaum: " We arrived Thursday, June 7, on our last stop of our End ME/CFS Worldwide Tour in Zanè, a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. We were welcomed with a lovely dinner we shared with Giada Da Ros, President of the CFS Italian Association, Paolo Maccallini ...

The latest update from OMF, about 9 minutes long. Summary: Their interest is T lymphocytes, which are prime movers of the immune system and come in several different flavours. They have been studying them for 35 years. Have seen evidence of major T cell activity in the blood of ME/CFS...

https://www.omf.ngo/2018/05/25/omf-funded-research-overview-2018/ OMF has just posted a list of their funded research. Lots going on. I expect as a group we'll have different interests. I am watching the red blood cell lack of pliability with considerable interest. EDIT: title should read...

Good to see the millions start rolling in! :)

This #OMFScienceWednesday post definitely deserves its own thread :emoji_confetti_ball::emoji_clap::party: OMF creates as new Harvard ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center and expands Stanford Data Center We are proud to announce that OMF has funded $1.8 million for the establishment of a new...

The latest brief (7 or 8 mins) update from Ron Davis, Summary: Most of severely ill study data collected and analysed, now trying to get it online for people to access, and writing a paper. Hope people will use it to develop hypotheses that can be funded by NIH. Other work in the lab...

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The latest 14min video research update from Ron Davis' group. Not a lot new, but a useful summary of where they are at. https://www.omf.ngo/ron-davis-research-update-video/ RD says they have found fewer viruses in the (severely ill) patient group than in healthy people, which was the opposite...

OMF-funded research: a metabolic ‘trap’ hypothesis for ME/CFS - Dr. Robert Phair, March 2018 https://www.omf.ngo/2018/03/14/omf-funded-research-a-metabolic-trap-hypothesis-for-me-cfs/ March 14, 2018 On this #OMFScienceWednesday we highlight a new project that OMF is funding, which proposes a...

I quite like these small, informative Science Wednesday posts from Open Medicine Foundation and thought it might be nice to have a thread with a collection of them. Starting from last week's post. If you want to read the previous posts they are gathered here at OMF's website. What do T cells...

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The pertinent bit from their Facebook post

https://www.omf.ngo/2018/02/02/pineapple-fund/ PINEAPPLE FUND INCREASES DONATION TO $5 MILLION Posted on:February 2, 2018 Two weeks ago, on January 14, 2018, OMF received a $1 million donation from the Pineapple Fund to “accelerate much-needed research for ME/CFS and related chronic complex...

Update from OMF on ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center in this week's #OMFScienceWednesday. The Stanford research team got back to work this week and this is among their plans: A major priority is publishing the results the team has generated so far, including the potential diagnostic...

Here's a link to Ron Davis' most recent research update -- received in an email today. https://www.omf.ngo/ron-davis-research-update-video/ Watching the video will require signing in with your name, email address and country. ETA: The registration page has been removed. The link above now...

https://paolomaccallini.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/severely-ill-big-data-study-a-first-glance/