Tag Archives: UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative
UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative plans to promote biological research
Action for ME blog post, 6 March 2018: UK CFS/M.E. Research Collaborative Since its inception in 2013, the UK CFS/M.E. Research Collaborative (CMRC) has successfully brought together significant numbers of researchers from across the UK and internationally with charities, mainstream … Continue reading
MEGA: new UK research alliance announces ‘big data’ study
MEGA: ME/CFS Epidemiology and Genomics Alliance: On the 13th and 14th of April 2016, experts from multiple fields came together for a ‘grand challenge’ workshop to discuss how to advance research in understanding CFS/ME. It was agreed that: Very large … Continue reading
A dozen different diseases? Prof Stephen Holgate calls for radical change in ME/CFS research
ME/CFS probably isn’t one disease, or even a few different ones – but could be as many as fifteen. So said Professor Stephen Holgate, Chair of the UK Research Collaborative (CMRC), when he addressed the Forward ME Group in the … Continue reading
Biological breakthrough reported
The TIMES newspaper reported on the launch of the UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative (UK CMRC) on 23 April 2013: Scientists have found compelling new evidence of an underlying biological cause for the constant fatigue suffered by ME patients. The study … Continue reading