ME/CFS South Australia Inc: Presentations From The Third UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative Conference 2016

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Presentations From The Third UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative Conference 2016

Saturday 24 December 2016

From Action For ME (via the OzME mailing list):

Selected presentations from the report of the third UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative conference, 28-29 September 2016

Friday 23 December 2016
© 2016 Action for M.E. Charity registered in England and Wales: 1036419.
Registered in Scotland: SC040452.

A full final report of the conference is being prepared – meanwhile, please find overviews of the following presentations, with kind thanks to volunteers Emily Beardall, Katrina Pears and Karen Hainsworth, who wrote them.

Welcome – Prof Stephen Holgate, UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative Chair

SAIL Database: routinely collected data for research – Prof David Ford, Swansea University

Biological Fingerprints of Fatigue in Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome – Dr Nadia Howard-Tripp, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Rheumatology, on behalf of Prof Fai Ng

Understanding the pathogenesis of autonomic dysfunction in CFS/ME and its relationship with cognitive impairment – Prof Julia Newton, Director of Newcastle Academic Health Partners and Clinical Professor of Ageing and Medicine, Newcastle University

Persistent fatigue induced by interferon alpha: a new immunological model for CFS/ME – Alice Russell, King’s College London, on behalf of Prof Carmine Pariante

Mapping global research funding over the last 10 years: a UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative-sponsored report – Sonya Chowdhury, Chief Executive, Action for M.E.

Enhancing research funding applications into CFS/ME: part one – Dr Lindsay Keir, Senior Portfolio Developer, Wellcome

The Brain in Pain studies: central sensitisation in CFS/ME and fibromyalgia – Dr Julius Bourke, Queen Mary’s University, London

Voxel-based morphometry shows reductions in brainstem white matter in CFS/ME – Dr Andreas Finkelmeyer, University of Newcastle

Immune-pain interaction following exercise in CFS/ME: associations between exercise-induced hyperalgesia, complement system and elastase activation – Dr Andrea Polli, University of Brussels

Involving severe and very severely affected CFS/ME individuals in research: a clinician’s view point – Victoria Strassheim, Newcastle University

Fatigue in Primary Sjögrens Syndrome is associated with lower levels of proinflammatory cytokines – Dr Nadia Howard-Tripp, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Rheumatology