Research Centers
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded grants to three Collaborative Research Centers (CRCs) and one Data Management Coordinating Center.
Partnerships
Columbia University proudly partners with Solve ME/CFS Initiative and #MEAction to encourage community involvement in its research efforts. Please visit the Community Page of the CfS for ME/CFS website on the Center for Infection and Immunity's website for more information about community outreach and resources.
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Partnerships
Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medicine are collaborating with Ithaca College, where the Clinical Core of the Center is located, and with Frank Schroeder, PhD, of Cornell's Boyce Thompson Institute. Physicians Susan Levine, Geoffrey Moore, and John Chia are screening individuals for inclusion in the studies. Betsy Keller, PhD, co-directs the Clinical Core at Ithaca College with Geoffrey Moore, MD. The Cornell CRC is also partnering with Solve ME/CFS Initiative and the American ME and CFS Society to encourage community involvement in research and outreach efforts.
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Partnerships
JAX and the Bateman Horne Center are clinical partners for ME/CFS research; the Bateman Horne Center's clinical research is jointly led by Lucinda Bateman, MD, and Suzanne Vernon, PhD.
Explore issues that individuals with ME/CFS experience and learn about challenges faced by doctors and scientists as they work to solve the mystery of chronic fatigue syndrome.
JAX program manager Courtney Gunter talks about life on the front line of ME/CFS research.
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Partnerships
The ICanCME Research Network has formed partnerships with three national organizations, Millions Missing Canada, Action CIND, and the National ME/FM Action Network, as well with several provincial ME organizations including l'Association Québécoise de l'Encéphalomyélite Myalgique (AQEM), the ME/FM Society of BC, and the broader patient community to initiate, develop and sustain an ME research ecosystem across Canada.
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Partnerships
RTI is partnering with Solve ME/CFS Initiative to engage the patient community in its research efforts.
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National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Office of the Director (OD)
What is ME/CFS?
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), also referred to as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), is a multi-system disease that causes dysfunction of the neurological, immune, endocrine, and energy metabolism systems.