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ME Research UK is delighted to announce that we have awarded funding to Prof. Jo Nijs at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, for new PhD-level research exploring the links between mitochondrial function and the autonomic nervous system in ME/CFS.
The team includes Dr Andrea Polli, Dr Jolien Hendrix, and PhD student Jente Van Campenhout, who will compare mitochondrial function between groups of ME/CFS patients divided according to the autonomic symptoms they experience. As well as understanding the disease process better, subgrouping patients could help improve diagnosis and selecting treatments.
