It’s our one-year anniversary and we’re celebrating all month! Today, we announce our 2021 Ramsay Researchers! The Solve M.E. Ramsay Grant Program is designed to build a workforce, with a special focus on early-career investigators, and to allow researchers to generate data to support larger grant applications. The Ramsay network now includes more than 60 researchers around […]
Second year of Solve/UCLA partnership September 2021–Solve M.E. is again partnering with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Iris Cantor Women’s Health Center to fund ME/CFS research through their Annual Health Pilot Program. This round of funding follows last year’s, which supported a clinical study assessing the effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in ME/CFS. Solve’s […]
What a Year! We grew to nearly 5,000 members and are on track to reach 10,000 by mid-2022, creating a more and more robust resource for researchers. [Click here to enroll.] We gathered more than 2.4 million data points, more than doubling the number in four months. We incorporated Long Covid data to enhance our understanding of […]
The Solve M.E. Ramsay Grant Program is designed to build a research workforce for ME/CFS and to allow researchers to generate data to support larger grant applications. Currently in its fourth year, the Ramsay network now includes more than 60 researchers around the world and has resulted in more than $7 million dollars of additional […]
Each year on August 8, Severe ME Day, we reflect on the tremendous toll this devastating disease takes on individuals suffering from severe ME/CFS symptoms and remember the lives of those we have lost. People living with severe ME/CFS are often bed-bound and unable to perform everyday tasks without assistance — eating, showering, and even […]
Solve M.E.’s dedication to collaborative ME/CFS research is longstanding and includes initiatives such as the You + ME Registry, which gathers and provides access to patient-provided data, the Ramsay Awards which assist early-career researchers, the partnership with Action for M.E., which funds postdoctoral fellowships and the groundbreaking collaboration with UCLA, which sponsors leading-edge studies. The […]
In her U.S. News & World Report article, “In Long COVID, Advocates Battling Chronic Fatigue Syndrome See Allies, Hope,” journalist Chelsea Cirruzzo examines the ME/CFS and Long COVID connection, and how the striking similarities are fueling hopes that research can uncover solutions for both. Mentioned in the piece are Solve M.E. President Oved Amitay and the Long COVID […]
World’s largest ME/CFS data repository expands to Australia in initiative to open worldwide. April 2021 — We are pleased to share that the You + ME Registry and Biobank, a Solve M.E. project, has partnered with Emerge Australia on a landmark effort to establish the first Australian ME/CFS patient registry and biobank. This significant […]
This year the one-year anniversary of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States. It’s difficult to overstate the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the world and on life in the United States. The past year has presented challenges none of us could have anticipated — a devastating loss of human […]
We’re thrilled to announce that enrollment in the You + ME Registry has reached 2,000 participants! This would not have been possible without the support of this amazing community. Together, you have not only contributed over 1 million data points that can help drive new research, but also actively engaged with us in the design and continued […]