Wilhelmina Jenkins
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
My apologies - I am very crashed and had trouble reading all that was written above, so please forgive me if all of this was said. But I wanted too say that NIH does very little intramural research. This study was done because of Dr. Collins’ direct request to Dr. Nath. When they do an intramural study like this, it really is a deep dive with cutting edge technology, unlikely to be replicated at any university. The whole point was to take the deepest look at a narrowly defined population with ME/CFS and see what popped out.
Then the information obtained would be shared with extramural researchers who could take a slice of the results and follow up on it at their own universities and labs. The idea was that excited researchers would apply to NIH for extramural grants. If something really promising popped up, the patient community would undoubtedly push for set aside funding to pursue it.
This was a shot in the dark effort that may or may not yield exciting results. We’ll see.
Then the information obtained would be shared with extramural researchers who could take a slice of the results and follow up on it at their own universities and labs. The idea was that excited researchers would apply to NIH for extramural grants. If something really promising popped up, the patient community would undoubtedly push for set aside funding to pursue it.
This was a shot in the dark effort that may or may not yield exciting results. We’ll see.