Welcome
ME Research UK is a national charity funding biomedical research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (also known as ME/CFS). Our principal aim is to commission and fund high-quality scientific (biomedical) investigation into the causes, consequences and treatment of ME, but we also have a mission to ‘Energise ME Research’.
Our in-house team is involved in identifying potentially important biomedical projects, publishing scientific papers on biomedical aspects of the illness, producing high-quality professional reviews and reports, presenting research at meetings and conferences, and facilitating research applications by established researchers to grant-awarding bodies.
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New Horizons 2008
The New Horizons 2008 conference on ME/CFS biomedical research will take place on Tuesday 6th May 2008 at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Cambridge, hosted and sponsored jointly by ME Research UK and the Irish ME Trust.
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Identifying gene SNPs
Dr Jonathan Kerr’s group at St George’s University of London will shortly begin the next phase of their work: identifying the key SNPs for each of the 88 genes forming part of their proposed ‘gene signature’ for ME/CFS.
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Research challenges in ME/CFS
Dr Neil Abbot surveys some of the issues and challenges facing biomedical research in ME/CFS. This is an expanded version of an article which appeared in Action for ME’s Interaction magazine in December 2007.
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Inflammation and arterial stiffness
A scientific article in the current issue of Clinical Science reports the findings of ME Research UK-funded work in Dundee. Read the abstract and a comment by ME Research UK.
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Download our leaflet (pdf 705 KB)
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Download our information sheet (pdf 406 KB)
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Download our poster (pdf 1 MB)
Other recent news
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Christmas card sale To make way for our new 2008 range of Christmas cards, we are offering the remaining few packs from last year at a considerably reduced price.
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Neuroimaging in ME/CFS A study assessing cerebral structural, biochemical and cognitive neuropsychological changes in ME/CFS has just been announced.
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Exercise tolerance study A new project funded by ME Research UK, looking at the symptoms experienced by ME/CFS patients following exercise.
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New Horizons 2007 An overview of last year’s international conference on ME/CFS biomedical research at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
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Gibson parliamentary inquiry Dr Vance Spence’s presentation on the lack of progress since the UK Chief Medical Officer’s report of 2002.
