Dr Ron Davis - Updates on ME/CFS research - September 2019 onwards

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Ron Davis's message of hope for 2025 and plea for help

by Ronald W, Davis, PhD.

Dear ME/CFS Community,

I think of you all every day as I work to untangle the complex molecular basis of this horrific disease. We have made a lot of progress lately, and many scientists around the world are taking the data and making much more informed hypotheses about the causes and potential paths to treatments. I am very optimistic that soon the major mechanisms that initiate the disease will be found. This will allow a concerted effort to reverse the process and find a cure.

This work requires funding and unfortunately, NIH is not very supportive and funds very little ME/CFS research. So I must ask all of you - patients, parents, family, loved ones, friends, supporters - to donate to my research so it can move forward as fast as possible. The more funding I have, the faster I can make progress and the more projects I can take on at one time. This significantly speeds up research and the hopeful discovery of a cure.

If you can, please donate to my son’s birthday fundraiser, where 100% of your donation goes directly to my research.

spot.fund/FindACureForME…

Right now we have multiple projects making progress. Projects on the itaconate shunt, Manganese, BH4, neutrophils, red blood cell deformability, genetics, pathogen hunting, and oxidative damage. We constantly communicate and collaborate with the best researchers around the world. We are working with an excellent team at the University of Utah who have developed three different animal models of ME/CFS and Long Covid - bacterial, mouse and zebrafish. This is allowing us to test all known drugs and multiple supplements and natural products, some of which are demonstrating an ability to block the disease process. Taken together, this work fills me with hope that my son and all of you will have some treatment possibilities quite soon. Please hang in there. We are with you every day and I send you all my love and solidarity.

If you can, please donate to my son’s birthday fundraiser, where 100% of your donation goes directly to my research.

spot.fund/FindACureForME…

Thank you all so much for whatever you can contribute and may all ME/CFS patients be cured as soon as humanly possible.

- Ronald W, Davis, PhD.

(picture taken by Whitney Dafoe of Whitney and Ron)

 

Whitney has put on weight!

I regret that I won't be donating anything to Ron's research as it uses animals. This is not only cruel but almost always gives misleading results.

I also find the message puzzling as it refers to bacteria as animals!

 

Someone asked him about this on Twitter and he replied that it wasn’t weight, but water retention. I really hope he is allright and they can get to the bottom of what’s going on.

I was glad to see the fundraiser reached its target. Ron’s message had a very positive tone, may he and his team continue to make headway for all our sakes

 

It's great to see him able to sit up. It may have been more difficult than is apparent from the photo, but I get the impression there were many years when he had little or no chance of doing that.

 

Oh that’s a shame. I was hoping this was a good sign.