How did you get involved in the field of M.E. research?
I have been a sleep researcher since undertaking my Honours degree in 1978, with a particular interest in disorders of excessive daytime sleepiness such as narcolepsy. In 2010 my teenage son was diagnosed with ME/CFS, which left him bed and recliner bound for about 10 of the next 15 years. Remarkably he has now improved sufficiently to hold a job with flexible hours. While he was very sick I met ME/CFS clinicians and researchers in Melbourne and we managed to obtain funding for a series of studies focussing on sleep and gut microbes. We have since published this research with Melinda Jackson and Amy Wallis as the first authors.
