International ME/CFS Conference 2025 Berlin May 12-13

[Jaybee00]

Just noticed that all patients in the trial were female. Wonder if there are diseases with very different responses to meds between males and females?

 

[SNT Gatchaman]

I'm not sure when the videos will become available but I'd also highlight Dr Anna Aschenbrenner's talk that came at the end of day 1. Data from paper in preparation.

Using high-dimensional flow cytometry, they showed changes in NKs. However, they could not find a difference in immune cell subtypes when looking at subgroups based on causative infection (SARS2, EBV, influenza etc). And defined two severity subsets based on transcriptome.

 

[Arfmeister]

they showed changes in NKs.

Do you remember what the NK-changes exactly are?
- from the 4th slide, I can see that there are NK cell alterations - higher levels for CD-56
- with Long Covid and infection onset ME CFS patients (vs healthy controls)

 

[rapidboson]

As somebody has shared a picture of a poster in another thread, I am linking the .zip of all posters.

 

[Jaybee00]

Videos are published now.

https://events.mecfs-research.org/en/events/symposium_2025/videos