Updates from the UK ME/CFS Biobank / CureME team

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We're thrilled by the amazing interest in our upcoming hybrid event on September 19th at LSHTM! To join us, please register by clicking the link: https://forms.office.com/e/HY35YL4u8a or scan the QR code below. We can’t wait to meet you, share our latest research, and answer your questions!
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I had an email but there’s not a lot more info


We would like to invite you most warmly to our upcoming CureME hybrid event on September 19th, where we will present our latest research findings. Given your involvement in our work, we believe this event may be of particular interest to you.

The event will be held at LSHTM in Bloomsbury from 5:00 to 8:00 pm, and you are welcome to join us either in person or on-line. If you are attending virtually, we will send you a link one day prior to the event.

We look forward to seeing you at the event and to sharing our research in greater detail.
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Link to the zoom has been emailed and posted on their facebook page
We’re excited to see such a great response for our CureME event tomorrow!
If you haven’t registered but would join us online from 5:30 to 7:15 pm please use this link: https://lshtm.zoom.us/j/93604267836. See you there!
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The event will highlight our latest research findings, give you the chance to meet the team, ask questions, and stay updated on our ongoing work. Additionally, we’re excited to share an excerpt from the play "The Room Upstairs", written and performed by Lani Calvert, who has personal experience of ME/CFS in a close relative.
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hotblack said:
Link to watch and download the video.
https://bit.ly/4didHTK
I’ve not listened yet but from a skip through it has detailed presentations from various people on the different studies that have been taking place and their findings, looks very interesting.
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It’s no longer there. No idea if it is anywhere else yet: nothing has been posted to their Twitter account.
 
Dolphin said:
Join our first #CureME event of the year

Our interactive webinar will focus on: "Building Bridges: Community Strategies and Research Insights from the CureME Team for #MECFS Study Participants"

Monday 10 February, 14.00
Online

More details ⬇️
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Hi Dolphin

That link didn't work for me at all. I got a message saying "This form is not accepting responses"

I did a quick search on the Cure ME website and found this link for events which lists this webinar:

https://cureme.lshtm.ac.uk/index.php/me-cfs-events/
 
ahimsa said:
Hi Dolphin

That link didn't work for me at all. I got a message saying "This form is not accepting responses"

I did a quick search on the Cure ME website and found this link for events which lists this webinar:

https://cureme.lshtm.ac.uk/index.php/me-cfs-events/
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I think I read there were only a small number of spaces, maybe 25? So good chance they reached their limit.
 
Yes, limited space but recording available after. This from an email I received

We are delighted to invite you to our first webinar of the year where we will be joined by special guest Dr Jacqueline Cliff (Brunel, University of London) to hear about the current state of ME/CFS research, as well as hear from you about the most pressing needs for research.
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The webinar will be hosted online and limited to 25 participants to ensure a focused and interactive experience. For those unable to join live, a recording will be available afterwards.
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This will be the first in a series of seminars from the CureME team where we'll discuss the latest updates, and hear from our community about your concerns and priorities, for ME/CFS research.
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Includes video recording
https://cureme.lshtm.ac.uk/index.php/2025/03/10/first-cure-me-webinar/
First Cure-Me Webinar

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Mar 10, 2025




Building Bridges: Community strategies and research insights from the CureME team and ME/CFS study participants

Thank you to everyone who joined out first interactive webinar, bringing researchers and participants together, which we held this February with guest speaker Dr Jaqueline Cliff from Brunel University.


Dr Cliff gave a presentation on Dr Sook’s recent publication “Abnormal T-Cell Activation and Cytotoxic T-Cell Frequency Discriminates Symptom Severity In Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”, explaining the hypothesis of the study and the initial results in an accessible way.


The CureME team and the participants to learned much from each other as they interacted online following the talk. It gave us a clearer idea of the needs and priorities of people with ME/CFS, which is invaluable as we discuss research direction and how we can make study participation more ME/CFS friendly.

We would like to thank the participants again for sharing their thoughts and for the very informative discussions.


Please watch the recording and feel free to post something in the comments box if you would like to share your thoughts on the questions in the interaction sections, or if you have any questions for Dr Cliff.

We look forward to seeing you for the next webinar.


.We look forward to your feedback and to the next webinar.

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Dolphin said:
Please watch the recording and feel free to post something in the comments box if you would like to share your thoughts on the questions in the interaction sections, or if you have any questions for Dr Cliff.
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I encourage people to watch Dr Jaqueline Cliff's presentation on data from her teams NIH funded study on HHV6B saliva vs T cell and HHV6B antibodies, some of it preliminary. Along with DecodeME this is one of the two top funded teams researching ME/CFS in the UK.

At ~54mins a CureME(?) team member states that they are concerned about the continuation of funding due to the changes at the NIH......
 
So the question is why do Severe ME patients not show a correlation between anti-HHV6B antibodies and cytotoxic Tcell activity!!!! I think this was a preliminary result but it seems very significant to me. What do you make of this finding presented by Dr Cliff @Jonathan Edwards? Dr Cliff seemed to think that it was because severe ME/CFS didn't have reactivation but why would that be? She did present that Severe ME had less cytotoxic T-cells than mild/moderate but I didn't catch if they have similar levels of HHV6B or not in their saliva - do you know the answer to that?.



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I have emailed Dr Cliff today, suggesting that she repeat her experiment on a cohort of people who were mild for years before deteriorating, as they may provide clues as to what is changing between mild and severe ME, and why the finding doesn't replicate in severe.

In the email I also argued that it would be a mistake to conclude from these findings that severe ME is a separate subgroup or disease to mild/moderate, which seems to be what she implies at a couple of points in the webinar.

Their hypothesis seems to be that PEM is driven by HHV-6B reactivation, but this does not account for the fact that PEM is most severe in severe patients, and that many of them became severe by repeatedly triggering PEM. (Damn, I put that much better here than in the email).


I have to be honest and say that another finding not replicating in severe ME has filled me with dread. It would be very easy for researchers to only focus on mild/moderate pwME after this and the IGHV3-30 finding. But I think that this would not just be a moral mistake but a methodological one.

I hope I was able to get my points across to Dr Cliff politely but brain fog is the enemy of email etiquette!
 
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