Understand, Diagnose, Treat – International ME/CFS Conference 2023
Leading international ME/CFS experts exchanged their views on the current state of research at the conference held at the Charité Fatigue Center, Berlin on 11-12 May 2023.
Here are links to summaries, reports and videos of many of the presentations, which include:
Autoimmunity to the Autonomic Nervous System: The Mechanism to Many Common Clinical Conditions (Keynote)
Yehuda Shoenfeld, Tel Aviv University, Israel
ME/CFS as Part of the PCS Spectrum
Carmen Scheibenbogen, Charité Fatigue Center, Berlin, Germany
Diagnosing ME/CFS – State of the Art
Uta Behrends, University Clinic/MRI TU Munich, Germany
Autonomic Dysfunction in ME/CFS
Pawel Zalewski, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torún, Poland
Breathing and Muscular Dysfunction in ME/CFS
Max Liebl, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Brain Fog and Neurocognitive Assessment in ME/CFS
Carsten Finke, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Sleep Disturbance in ME/CFS
Christian Veauthier, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Hypermobility in ME/CFS
Peter C. Rowe, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Poster Presentation: blood cell deformability cytometry
Martin Kräter, Max Planck Institute, Erlangen, Germany
Poster Presentation: COVID-19 – the ultimate nfkB rush and the crucial importance of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
Marco Leitzke, Helios Clinic, Leisnig, Germany
Poster Presentation: Developing a blood cell-based diagnostic test for ME/CFS, using peripheral blood mononuclear cells
Karl J. Morten, University of Oxford, UK
Poster Presentation: Changes of the gut microbiome in CFS Patients in response to whole-body Cryotherapy
Hanna Tabisz, Nicolaus Copernicus University Toruń, Poland
Poster Presentation: Skeletal muscle abnormalities contribute to post-exertional malaise in Long COVID
Rob Wust, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Poster presentation: Effects of serum factors in patents with ME/CFS after COVID-19 on endothelial cell function in vitro
Kanchan Dulal, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Poster Presentation: Symptom persistence and biomarkers in post-COVID-19/chronic fatigue syndrome
Franziska Legler, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Assessing Endothelial Dysfunction
Francisco Westermeier, FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria
Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography and Cell Deformability in ME/CFS
Bettina Hohberger, University of Erlangen, Germany
Novel Biomarkers of Endothelial Dysfunction and Angiogenesis Alterations in PCS and ME/CFS
Martina Seifert, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Understanding Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM)
Christian Puta, University of Jena, Germany
Insights from ME/CFS May Help Unravel the Pathogenesis of PCS
Anthony L. Komaroff, Harvard Medical School, USA
Predictors of ME/CFS following EBV and implications for PCS
Leonard A. Jason, DePaul University, Chicago, USA
Immune Signature of ME/CFS
Anna Aschenbrenner, DZNE, Bonn, Germany
EBV Mimicry in ME/CFS
Nuno Sepúlveda, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Herpesviruses in ME/CFS
Bhupesh Prusty, University of Würzburg, Germany
Treating ME/CFS – State of the Art
Luis Nacul, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine & University of British Columbia, UK
Multiprofessional Inpatient ME/CFS Treatment
Johannes-Peter Haas, ZSTJM Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Neuromodulation in ME/CFS
Michael Stingl, Facharztzentrum Votivpark, Vienna, Austria
Medical Care Situation and Stigma with ME/CFS
Laura Froehlich, FernUniversität Hagen, Germany
Psychological Support in ME/CFS
Bettina Grande, Psychotherapy, Heidelberg, Germany
B and Plasma Cell Targeting in ME/CFS
Øystein Fluge, University of Bergen, Norway
Immunoadsorption in PCS and ME/CFS
Annika Elisa Stein, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Treating Orthostatic Intolerance in ME/CFS
Andrea Maier, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany
Vascular Targeting in ME/CFS
Klaus Wirth, University of Frankfurt / Mitodicure GmbH, Germany
See also
German Association for ME/CFS (Deutsche Gesellschaft für ME/CFS) has prepared short summaries of the presentations
Solve ME: Latest Breakthroughs at International ME/CFS Conference in Berlin
MERUK: “Understand, Diagnose, Treat” – reflecting on ME/CFS Conference 2023
ME Association: The Charité Fatigue Center ME/CFS Research Conference 2023
About the Charité Fatigue Center
“As an association of physicians and scientists who deal with fatigue, we have made it our mission to provide patients and doctors with assistance in diagnostics and therapy. We offer training events for physicians and provide information material for physicians and patients.
In an interdisciplinary network, we try to investigate the causes of fatigue, develop diagnostic markers and conduct therapy studies.”
