Celiac Plexus Blocks Improve Long Covid–Associated Gastrointestinal Symptoms
Dr. Deborah Duricka is a professor at the University of Alaska; researcher at Neuroversion; and 2022 Solve Ramsay Grant Program awardee. In a new case report, Dr. Duricka described how […]
Solve-Funded Study Finds Posture and Sex Affect Cardiometabolic Health in People with ME/CFS
Dr. Francisco Westermeier is an ME/CFS researcher at the FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences (Austria) and a 2019 Solve Ramsay Grant Awardee. He specializes in how ME/CFS disease affects […]
Hyperstimulated Innate Immune System Can Drive ME/CFS-Associated Fatigue and Post-Exertional Malaise
Dr. Ian Lipkin is a renowned professor of epidemiology, neurology, and pathology and director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University. He has long been a leader […]
Unique Blood-based Test Holds Much Promise for Diagnosing People with ME/CFS
Dr. Dmitri Pchejetski, a researcher at the University of East Anglia Medical School (United Kingdom), has developed a new blood-based assay, the EpiSwitch CFS test, that may prove very effective […]
Extracellular Vesicle Proteins in Men with ME/CFS: Changes Before and After Exercise Correlate with Key Symptoms
Dr. Maureen Hanson, a professor of molecular biology and genetics at Cornell University and member of Solve’s Research Advisory Council, specializes in understanding the molecular nature of ME/CFS. ME/CFS has […]
Diffusion MRI Shows How ME/CFS Changes Brain White Matter for Distinct Patient Subgroups
Dr. Zack Shan is director of the neuroimaging program at the University of the Sunshine Coast (Australia), where he specializes in developing new ways to visualize how ME/CFS affects brain […]
Do SARS-COV-2 Infections Increase the Risk of Subsequent Respiratory Viral Infections Among Children? An NIH RECOVER Study
After the pandemic eased (and people practiced less social distancing and masking) came a huge surge in respiratory viral infections among young children, associated with significantly more morbidities. Many children […]
NIH RECOVER Study Analyzes Electronic Health Records to Estimate Long Covid Incidence
Dr. Lorna Thorpe, a professor of population health at the New York University School of Medicine, and Dr. Richard Moggitt, a professor of biomedical informatics at the Emory University School […]
Results From the RECOVER-Adult Study: How Social Challenges Affect Risk of Developing Long Covid
Dr. Candace Feldman is a rheumatologist and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard University. She specializes in collecting and analyzing data to improve health care for disadvantaged communities. Dr. Feldman […]
New Study Examines ME/CFS Subgroups Based on Cerebrospinal Fluid and Blood-Plasma Proteins
Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, Sterling Professor of Immunology at Yale University and winner of the 2025 Solve Catalyst Award, recently published a study on distinguishing groups of people with ME/CFS based […]
PLRF Event Highlights Promising ME/CFS & Long Covid Biomedical Research Projects
On July 9, the Patient-Led Research Collaborative (PLRC) hosted an online presentation by researchers funded by the inaugural Patient-led Research Fund (PLRF). Ms. Gina Assaf, one of the PLRC founders, […]
A Guide to: “Investigating Immune Dysfunction & T Cell Exhaustion via Single Cell Immune Profiling in ME/CFS and Long COVID”
Last month we hosted the webinar “Immune Dysfunction & T-Cell Exhaustion via Single Cell Immune Profiling in ME/CFS & Long COVID,” with Solve Ramsay Research Grant winners Liisa K. Selin, […]
