Research Fund Update for #CofEforME Projects
Finding Facilitating Funding Mainstreaming Energising Doing Biomedical Research into ME
An update to our gut microbiota and related projects being performed at the UK Centre of Excellence for ME in Norwich Research Park brings the total raised so far for projects there to £196,000.
The achievement of our supporters is rarely recognised and often underestimated or ignored.
What these supporters (patients, carers, family members, friends, philanthropists and people who feel the need to act) have done is to create a foundation of biomedical research which has the potential to transform the landscape for research into ME and give real hope for all of the patients in UK, Europe and elsewhere in the world.
This week IiMER announced plans for our thirteenth international ME conference and our eighth biomedical research
into ME Colloquium. Both events are in London.
The chairman's welcome message to the IIMEC13 conference recognises the need for the work the charity does and
this is possible due to the great support from supporters.
The Colloquium and Conference will again have representation from the major centres around the world.
The UK Centre of Excellence hub (with virtual links to several UK organisations) is working with partners in other countries.
With five PhDs studentships underway and another scheduled to begin in the autumn
, and supplemented by medical students intercalating in their fourth year of study and contributing to the ongoing
biomedical research, we have good momentum.
A senior research associate posiition will be filled soon hopefully and we aim to add more weight to the overall research programme.
as preparations are ongoing for a UK clinical trial of rituximab
and with major European and international collaboration.
More about the research projects within the Research Park is available here and details of the project leading to the UK rituximab cklinical trial are here.
A foundation of biomedical research is now established for
substantial and continuing research into this disease
which is blighting the lives of so many patients and their families around the world.
This opportunity provides the best possibility for progressing biomedical research into M.E and we invite you to support us
in this endeavour.
With enough support we can achieve this and make lasting progress in researching and treating this disease.
For major funders and philanthropists this is an opportunity to resolve a major issue and give back the lives to so many people.
Invest in ME Research is the charity committed to bringing high-quality biomedical research to discover the aetiology and produce treatments for this disease in the quickest time-frame possible.
Please help us with this objective.
To raise funds and awareness for this join our CofEforME C-Selfie support campaign
- click here
Ways to help us are shown in the column at the right of our page.
Direct Ways to Donate to Invest in ME Research
There are several options to support the charity via direct methods such as bank transfer and direct donations.
Click the donate button to go to the funding page for more details.
Invest in ME Research is an independent UK charity finding, facilitating, and funding a strategy of biomedical research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), and promoting better education about ME.
The charity's objectives are to initiate, maintain and augment a strategy of high-quality biomedical research into ME, to provide education about ME, and to raise awareness of the effects of the disease on patients and families.
The charity believes that biomedical research into ME is crucial in order to make progress in treating this disease. We also believe that education of healthcare staff, the media, government departments, patient groups and patients is to be a priority.
Invest in ME Research is run by volunteers - patients or parents of children with ME - with no paid staff.
Overheads are kept to a minimum to enable all funds raised to go to promoting education of, and facilitating and funding biomedical research into, ME.
We are a small charity but with supporters who have big hearts - and a determination to get the best possible research to be carried out to find the cause of myalgic encephalomyelitis and develop treatments.
We have links nationwide and also internationally.
Invest in ME Research is a founder member of the European ME Alliance (EMEA), a collaboration of European national charities and organisations.
The charity was also responsible for initiating the European ME Research Group (EMERG) concept, a collaboration of European researchers from major institutes.
The charity also has initiated the European ME Clinicians Council (EMECC), a network of European clinicians who will work together and share experiences of treating ME in order to establish better standards for patient care.
We do not receive, and have never received funding from government or government organisations.
The seriousness and urgency of the situation regarding ME makes it necessary for a charity such as Invest in ME Research to provide the impetus for funding biomedical research in order to provide hope for the development of diagnostic tests and remedial treatments.
The charity has pursued of policy of raising funds itself for biomedical research in order to fund research at top UK institutes. More information is available here.We believe that clinicians should standardise on usage of the most up-to-date criteria which will be agreed and developed for diagnosis by the European ME Clinicians Council and European ME Research Group, along with international collaborators. in order that there is an agreed basis (noting that evolutionary improvement would be welcomed).
The charity organises an annual research Colloquium and conference regularly attracting delegates from 20 countries and funds research at the Quadram Institute and the University of East Anglia as well as influencing collaboration elsewhere, in UK, Europe and beyond.
Our conferences and colloquiums were organised from the beginning in order to provide a platform for research and a means of facilitating education about ME.
In order to bring the best education and research to bear on ME and to find and facilitate the best strategy of research into this disease the charity welcomes support for our work.
Our aim is to fund and facilitate research in order to establish an understanding of the aetiology, pathogenesis and epidemiology of ME. We hope this will lead to the development of a universal diagnostic test(s) that can confirm the presence of ME and, subsequently, medical treatments to cure or alleviate the effects of the illness
Our efforts are focused on setting up a UK/European Centre of Excellence for ME which will provide proper examinations and diagnosis for ME patients and a coordinated strategy of biomedical research into ME in order to find treatment(s) and cure(s).