Harvard ME/CFS Collaboration Symposium June 8th 2019

Alvin

Alvin

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Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) is pleased to sponsor the inaugural Harvard ME/CFS Collaboration 2019 Scientific and Public Symposium: Finding Clarity.

The Harvard ME/CFS Collaboration 2019 Public Symposium will follow a one-day scientific meeting with more than 30 researchers. Ronald G. Tompkins, MD, ScD, and Wenzhong Xiao, PhD, co-directors of the OMF-funded Harvard ME/CFS Collaboration at Harvard Affiliated Hospitals have assembled a stellar team of researchers for both the scientific meeting and the public day.

Please join us and meet our team in person.

Saturday, June 8, 2019
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
AMC Assembly Row 12
395 Artisan Way
Somerville, Massachusetts
(Parking is available at the Artisan West Garage.)
There is no charge for this event.
Space is limited - Kindly RSVP by May 31.

https://www.omf.ngo/2019/05/07/harvard-symposium-2019/


I have no idea how to add this to the calendar - added, option is under 'Thread tools' for thread originator
 
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Anybody going to this? Apparently there is a waiting list to attend now. I can't find any agenda for this 3 hour event.
 
I didn't see an agenda on the OMF web site.

It does say it will be recorded, so I'm banking on that.
 
Maybe the SMC should send someone over? I mean, they are really interested in the truth and not pushing their client's agendas, so I can't imagine why they wouldn't.

I'm happy this is happening at Harvard, though. So many hospitals and colleges in the area and even the greater area.
 
Would love to know the gist of these two talks from the Nottingham chaps

Dr Paul Greenhaff, @UniofNottingham, presents on “Impact of inactivity vs inflammation in muscle metabolism.”

Dr Philip Atherton, @UniofNottingham, presents on the new collaboration with the OMF-funded MECFS Collaborative Research Activities at MGH & Harvard and “Stable isotopes applications and neuromuscular iEMG relevant to MECFS”.
 
ukxmrv said:
Dr Paul Greenhaff, @UniofNottingham, presents on “Impact of inactivity vs inflammation in muscle metabolism.”
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JemPD said:
The 'effects of inactivity' part worries me a bit though?
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From the OMF website:
The new initiative begins with a dozen faculty from the three Harvard Institutions together with critical collaborators from the University of Birmingham, England and University of Nottingham, England, who comprise the MRC-Arthritis Research UK Centre for Musculoskeletal Aging Research, as well as long term highly valued collaborators in the fields of proteomics and metabolism from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

This new Collaborative Center seeks to conduct basic science mechanistic studies with very high priority. This research focus will discover and understand the multi-omic signature of muscle biopsies of ME/CFS patients during their recovery from mild to moderate muscular stress, by comparison to healthy individuals’ signatures at baseline, during recovery from muscular stress, and during immobilization. Our hypothesis is that the inflammation-related recovery mechanisms in ME/CFS patients are dysregulated, and that this delays recovery from post-muscular stress. In addition to the direct tissue studies, both structural and functional neuroimaging will be conducted at the very advanced MGH/HMS imaging center, the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu). This will allow testing of hypotheses related to neuro-immune interactions, including exaggerated vagus nerve signaling, microglial activation, and disrupted autonomic and metabolic functioning in the central nervous system.
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Looks like a valuable study.
 
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