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Advancing ME\/CFS Research: Identifying Targets for Intervention and Learning from Long COVID [ME\/CFS Research Conference]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Event Information<\/strong><\/p>\n

The NIH sponsored conference entitled \u201cAdvancing ME\/CFS Research: Identifying Targets for Intervention and Learning from Long COVID\u201d will take place in Masur Auditorium, Clinical Center on the NIH Campus on December 12-13, 2023. The goal of the conference is to present the state of the science of ME\/CFS research and identify targets for potential interventions that have arisen from the literature and clinical evidence from ME\/CFS and Long COVID observations. The audience is expected to be scientists, clinicians, individuals with lived experience and other ME\/CFS stakeholders. The Conference will be hybrid and will be webcast and publicly available.<\/p>\n

Conference Organizing Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n

Co-Chairs of the Conference are Andrew Grimson, PhD from Cornell University and Nancy Klimas, MD from Nova Southeastern University. Additional Committee members: Oved Amitay, Solve MECFS Initiative; Megan Carnes, PhD, RTI; Cort Johnson, Health Rising; Laurie Jones, #MEAction; Avindra Nath, MD, NIH\/NINDS; Linda Tannenbaum, Open Medicine Foundation; Jarred Younger, PhD, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Joseph Breen, PhD, NIH\/NIAID; Vicky Whittemore, PhD, NIH\/NINDS<\/p>\n

Registration<\/strong><\/p>\n

Registration<\/u><\/a> is now open for the upcoming research conference, \u201cAdvancing ME\/CFS Research: Identifying Targets for Intervention and Learning from Long COVID,\u201d which will take place on December 12-13, 2023 at NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD. This will be a hybrid meeting where you may attend in-person, or virtually via your browser by joining the NIH Videocast, a live-streaming video platform. For more information about the conference, click here<\/a><\/u><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Draft Agenda<\/strong><\/p>\n

Advancing ME\/CFS Research: Identifying Targets for Intervention and Learning from Long COVID<\/b>
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DAY 1 \u2013 December 12, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome \u2013 <\/strong>Joe Breen (NIAID) and Vicky Whittemore (NINDS)<\/p>\n

Walter Koroshetz, MD; Director, NINDS<\/p>\n

Session One (Immunology)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Individual with Lived Experience – TBN<\/p>\n

Mark Davis, PhD – Stanford University<\/p>\n

Derya Unutmaz, PhD – Jackson Laboratories<\/p>\n

Additional Speakers \u2013 TBN<\/p>\n

Late-breaking presentation(s) from Young Investigator Workshop<\/p>\n

Session Two (Virology)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Individual with Lived Experience – TBN<\/p>\n

W. Ian Lipkin, MD \u2013 Columbia University<\/p>\n

Avindra Nath, MD \u2013 NIH\/NINDS<\/p>\n

Additional Speakers \u2013 TBN<\/p>\n

Late-breaking presentation(s) from Young Investigator Workshop<\/p>\n

Session Three (Metabolism)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Individual with Lived Experience – TBN<\/p>\n

Maureen Hanson, PhD \u2013 Cornell University<\/p>\n

Karl Johan Tronstad, PhD \u2013 University of Bergen<\/p>\n

David Systrom, Jr., MD \u2013 Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital<\/p>\n

Additional Speakers \u2013 TBN<\/p>\n

Late-breaking presentation(s) from Young Investigator Workshop<\/p>\n

Session Four (Reports)<\/strong><\/p>\n

ME\/CFS Research Roadmap Report<\/p>\n

Lucinda Bateman, MD \u2013 Bateman Horne Center<\/p>\n

Maureen Hanson, PhD \u2013 Cornell University<\/p>\n

Additional reports – TBD<\/p>\n

END of DAY 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

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DAY 2 \u2013 December 13, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

Session Five (Long COVID and ME\/CFS)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Individual with Lived Experience – TBN<\/p>\n

Lucinda Bateman, MD \u2013 Bateman Horne Center<\/p>\n

Additional Speakers – TBN<\/p>\n

Late-breaking presentation(s) from Young Investigator Workshop<\/p>\n

Session Six (Gene Regulation)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew Grimson, PhD \u2013 Cornell University<\/p>\n

Alain Moreau, PhD \u2013 University of Montreal<\/p>\n

Additional Speakers – TBN<\/p>\n

Late-breaking presentation(s) from Young Investigator Workshop<\/p>\n

Session Seven (Neurology)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Individual with Lived Experience – TBN<\/p>\n

Jarred Younger, PhD \u2013 University of Alabama, Birmingham<\/p>\n

Additional Speakers \u2013 TBN<\/p>\n

Late-breaking presentation(s) from Young Investigator Workshop<\/p>\n

Session Eight (Microbiome)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Individual with Lived Experience – TBN<\/p>\n

Speakers – TBN<\/p>\n

Late-breaking presentation(s) from Young Investigator Workshop<\/p>\n

Session Nine (Synthesis and Integration \u2013 panel discussion)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Panelists – TBN<\/p>\n

Summary and Closing Thoughts <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5351","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t