In a recent Press Release published on August 22, 2019, it was announced that the Government of Canada, through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), is investing $1.4M in ME/CFS research. The Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Health, made the announcement together with Dr. Alain Moreau, a professor at the University of Montreal. Dr. Moreau will lead a new national network headquartered at Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Centre in Montreal, and which will be comprised of more than 20 researchers, plus patient partners and clinicians.

The network hopes to create critically needed scientific knowledge about the causes of ME/CFS, and work towards potential treatments for the disease. In addition to searching for the causes of ME/CFS, the network will also work to link cohorts of patients and researchers in Canada and the US, which will enable investigators to share samples, data, and methods, and allow them to work together to further ME/CFS research.

To read the Press Release, click here.
To learn more about CIHR, click here.

On September 7, Stanford University will hold their 3rd Annual Community Symposium on the Molecular Basis of ME/CFS. The symposium, which is sponsored by Open Medicine Foundation (OMF), will be held at Stanford University, and serves as “a unique and up-close opportunity to learn from and interact with world-class scientists.” The event will also feature ME/CFS expert guest speakers from all over the world, including Maureen Hanson from the Cornell CRC and Ron Davis from Stanford University.

The symposium will be held from 9:00 – 5:00 pm PT, and will also be accessible via livestream the day of the event. A recording will be made available on OMF’s YouTube channel following the symposium.

For more information about the Symposium, click here.
To register to attend the meeting in person, click here. 
To register to attend the meeting via livestream, click here.