ME Research UK is delighted to have awarded funding to Dr Andrea Polli and Prof. Lode Godderis at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium for a project investigating immune exhaustion in ME/CFS.
Together with PhD student Yanthe Buntinx, the team will explore whether the immune system in people with ME/CFS is exhausted by prolonged activation or whether it is inherently weaker and more vulnerable.
A better understanding of changes to the immune system in ME/CFS could guide the development of immunotherapies, an approach which has revolutionised treatment in other diseases such as cancer.
