The new vision from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), 2026, Taubenberger et al.

[ME/CFS Science Blog]

'Preparing for tomorrow’s threats by enhancing our ability to help patients today.'

'For decades, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) research has focused on three areas: HIV, biodefense/pandemic preparedness, and all other immunological and infectious diseases combined. NIAID’s new vision will refocus on the two related pillars of infectious diseases and immunology, opening wider areas for research into the challenges most relevant to keeping Americans healthy today.'

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The new vision from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - Nature Medicine

Preparing for tomorrow’s threats by enhancing our ability to help patients today.

www.nature.com

 

[ME/CFS Science Blog]

Good to see ME/CFS mentioned in this new NIAID mission statement:

The NIAID will foster research to better understand long-term post-infectious and non-infectious inflammatory syndromes, such as long COVID, chronic Lyme disease, myalgic encephalitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, and adverse events after vaccination

 

[ME/CFS Science Blog]

This was published by Jeffery K. Taubenberger the new director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the NIH. Their brief paper in Nature Medicine explain the plans to update the NIAD mission to fit current challenges. Seems like they also plan to move away from a focus on HIV.

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

Good to see ME/CFS mentioned in this new NIAID mission statement:

It is good to see that it is there but sadly in the context of a text that indicates a complete misunderstanding of the problem. The rest seems to be an exercise in sycophantic whitewashing. No mention of the fact that NIH helped to cause the Covid-19 epidemic through stupidly misguided policy (although the subtext indicates that the authors know all about that).

NIAID, at least beyond HIV, has always been dead wood and likely will continue to be. ME/CFS will get caught up in a new fashion for a certain sort of largely misdirected research, but there is a faint possibility that by chance someone stumbles on something important. They could fund SequenceME but I rather doubt it will be on their radar.

 

[Creekside]

It reminds me of those corporate "new strategies!" that jokes are made of. Without an explanation for how it will improve research, it's just an empty headline.

 

[Utsikt]

It reminds me of those corporate "new strategies!" that jokes are made of. Without an explanation for how it will improve research, it's just an empty headline.

Our strategy is to be the best. We’re going to do that by having the best product and making the most money.​

I can’t count how many times I’ve seen reasoning like that at work.

 

[Andy]

'Preparing for tomorrow’s threats by enhancing our ability to help patients today.'

'For decades, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) research has focused on three areas: HIV, biodefense/pandemic preparedness, and all other immunological and infectious diseases combined. NIAID’s new vision will refocus on the two related pillars of infectious diseases and immunology, opening wider areas for research into the challenges most relevant to keeping Americans healthy today.'

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The new vision from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - Nature Medicine

Preparing for tomorrow’s threats by enhancing our ability to help patients today.

www.nature.com

Paywalled for me.

 

[Jaybee00]

Paywalled for me.

Inexcusable that they published this 100% taxpayer funded article behind a paywall.