{"id":11234,"date":"2016-12-21T09:03:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T09:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=11234"},"modified":"2016-12-21T09:07:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T09:07:42","slug":"%ef%bb%bfmea-to-fund-new-research-into-biomarkers-and-markers-of-disease-activity-in-people-with-severe-mecfs%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/%ef%bb%bfmea-to-fund-new-research-into-biomarkers-and-markers-of-disease-activity-in-people-with-severe-mecfs%ef%bb%bf\/","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffMEA to fund new research into biomarkers and markers of disease activity in people with severe ME\/CFS\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>ME Association<\/strong> announcement, 20 December 2016: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meassociation.org.uk\/2016\/12\/mea-to-fund-new-research-into-biomarkers-and-markers-of-disease-activity-in-people-with-severe-mecfs-20-december-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">MEA to fund new research into biomarkers and markers of disease activity in people with severe ME\/CFS<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>We are pleased to announce that \u2013\u00a0following the normal rigorous peer review procedures \u2013 the MEA Ramsay Research Fund has agreed to fund a study that will be examining what are termed microRNA profiles in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and exosome-enriched vesicles.<\/p>\n<p>The study will involve the use of ME Biobank blood samples that have been obtained from people with severe ME\/CFS and from our Biobank group of healthy controls.<\/p>\n<p>The research will be carried out by Professor Elisa Oltra and colleagues in Spain and we are hoping that there will also be additional UK collaboration to the involvement of the ME Biobank in supplying the samples.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11236 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Elisa_Oltra.png?resize=180%2C180\" alt=\"elisa_oltra\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Elisa_Oltra.png?w=180&amp;ssl=1 180w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Elisa_Oltra.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/180;\" \/>The study will start early in the New Year and will take 12 months to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Total RRF funding = approx \u00a350,000<\/p>\n<p>Find a brief CV for Professor Oltra <a href=\"https:\/\/publons.com\/author\/361418\/elisa-oltra#profile\" target=\"_blank\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meassociation.org.uk\/2016\/12\/mea-to-fund-new-research-into-biomarkers-and-markers-of-disease-activity-in-people-with-severe-mecfs-20-december-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a> about the project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ME Association announcement, 20 December 2016: MEA to fund new research into biomarkers and markers of disease activity in people with severe ME\/CFS We are pleased to announce that \u2013\u00a0following the normal rigorous peer review procedures \u2013 the MEA Ramsay &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/%ef%bb%bfmea-to-fund-new-research-into-biomarkers-and-markers-of-disease-activity-in-people-with-severe-mecfs%ef%bb%bf\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[367,1183,2892,2893,3377,3378,36,2667],"class_list":["post-11234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-me-association","tag-micrornas","tag-pbmc","tag-peripheral-blood-mononuclear-cells","tag-prof-elisa-oltra","tag-ramsay-research-fund","tag-severe-me","tag-uk-mecfs-biobank"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-2Vc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11237,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions\/11237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}