News from NIH: ME/CFS Telebriefing- October 23, 2018

Source: National Institutes of Health

Date: October 11, 2018

URL: http://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A0=NIH-MECFS_INFORMATION

News from NIH: ME/CFS Telebriefing- October 23, 2018
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We request your participation in a telebriefing about updates on NIH's efforts to advance research on ME/CFS. The telebriefing will be held on October 23, 2018, 12:00 pm until 1:00 pm ET. If you will be calling from the U.S., please use the following dial-in information for the telebriefing.

Dial-in: 866-844-9416

Participant passcode: 7178985

If you will be calling from another country, please see the attached chart for your country's access information. (Presumably available via link)

Please remember to register at NIHME-CFSWorkingG@ninds.nih.gov if you plan to join the call.

Thank you in advance for your participation and we look forward to an engaging, thoughtful, and productive conversation.

Regards,
The Trans-NIH ME/CFS Working Group

 

Do you want to add that to the calendar, @MeSci?

 

Hope I've done it right.

 

Thanks for doing that - yes, you've done it right and can see your listing here:

https://www.s4me.info/calendar/

 

Who are these people and is it something where we tell them what we think or ask questions or are they just broadcasting their thoughts like a podcast?

 

You can ask questions at the end.

 

I registered and logged in and only see this

So we have to e-mail and request to join the call?
So what was the logging in about?

 

Sorry but I don't know anything about this - I just received notification of it.

 

I understand, its a general question to anyone who knows
Have you participated on any of these calls before?

 

I forgot about this. I hope some people did listen in or it would give the impression that there is not much interest in such events. This would not be a good message, especially when complaining about the closing of the CFSAC.

I would have been more likely to remember it if they had mentioned who the speakers were going to be.

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1054769561772441600

https://twitter.com/user/status/1054773170845241344

https://twitter.com/user/status/1054775834588966912

https://twitter.com/user/status/1054776968611328002

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1060222419464609792

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1065444068270972931

https://twitter.com/user/status/1065444843214856192

https://twitter.com/user/status/1065448391570792448

https://twitter.com/user/status/1065449952632061952

 

Is this good or bad overall?

Montoya leading the meeting is awesome. Program announcements being considered for ME but the whole process being replaced is... ? Not very surprising that there are few grants submitted. No one in their right mind will stake their research career on something that may be dried of funds whenever someone feels like it. Only very motivated researchers will take that risk, so it's no wonder so many either have a personal connection to a patient or have already firmly established careers in other areas of research.

That's also why a lot of useless research is being done in other diseases because it's always safe. Maybe that's why the whole process is being replaced? There's clearly a lot of needs that are unmet at the expense of research that adds little to no understanding.

 

Let's see how meeting with M.E Action goes on 7th December....fingers crossed

 

Assuming the NIH is not gaslighting us this seems to be a Mexican Standoff. The major players have tried for years to get money through repeated applications but got hung out to dry. They are either applying and still being denied or don't want to waste more resources after being burned so many times.
Assuming the NIH is not gaslighting us and there really is money available...

I don't have twitter but if someone wants to link my post or copy and paste it in a reply to that tweet please do.

 

I don't think they are applying....

 

Many if not all have more then once.

 

I just mean fy2018 there were very few applications