The agenda for the 14th International ME Conference in London on 31st May 2019 is now finalised.
We welcome again delegates from twenty countries to this conference which takes place in ME Conference Week 2019 - a week where the charity organises eight events that concentrate on biomedical research, collaboration and networking and future requirements for ME in clinical and research contexts.
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The Anne Örtegren Memorial Lecture is dedicated in honour of the work of Swedish patient Anne Örtegren who passed away in 2018.
This year's lecture is given by Professor Stuart Bevan from the Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, Kings College London. Professor Bevan will be speaking about chronic pain. His work is focused on sensory transduction in neuronal and non-neuronal cells, the transduction and transmission of noxious and innocuous stimuli in peripheral sensory nerves and mechanisms of pain and analgesia.
More details of the Anne Örtegren Memorial Lecture are here.
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Registration for the fourteenth International ME Conference is here - click here.
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This year we will again have an update from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the CDC in USA about the plans and current work. We will include research updates from two of the NIH-funded centres - at Columbia and Cornell universities.
From Australia we have Professor Don Staines returning to give an update on NCNED research - click here.
We welcome back Professor Karl Johan Tronstad and Dr Øystein Fluge from Haukeland University Hospital (click here) and Professor Simon Carding from Quadram Institute in Norwich Research Park (click here).
A new speaker and a new subject will be that of Dr David Andersson from Kings College London and The Pathophysiology of Fibromyalgia.
The newly formed European ME Clinicians Council will be represented and we hope that Dr Jesper Mehlsen from Denmark will present on the pathophysiologic changes in a large cohort of Danish ME-patients.
We also welcome back Professor Nancy Klimas and this year new faces from USA - Dr Ron Tompkins and Dr Michael VanElzakker from Harvard.
Professor Ron Davis from Stanford will round up the agenda with his overview of research - click here.
The agenda is available here
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Other Events in ME Conference Week 2019
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The ME Conference Week in May 2019 also has the third Thinking the Future Young Investigators Conference. This follows on from last year's inaugural event in London, and from the recent TtF conference in Washington, USA.
The two day Biomedical Research into ME Colloquium - #BRMEC9 - has researchers from fifteen countries attending to collaborate, share data and build ideas in future research.
The European ME Alliance will also be holding its AGM and we welcome participation from the European Federation of Neurological Alliances.
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"Thank you to these organisations supporting the charity in organising ME Conference Week in London - the Irish ME Trust, the Open Medicine Foundation and Norges ME Forening.
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ME Conference Week now includes a conference for young/early career researchers; a dinner where young researchers can meet more experienced scientists; a two day closed research Colloquium where researchers can share ideas and discuss and plan and collaborate; a researchers' dinner where more discussions can be had; a pre-conference dinner which allows a special gathering of researchers, clinicians, media folk, politicians, ME support representatives,carers and patients to interact; a public international conference; a post-conference dinner which allows researchers and patient group representatives to discuss further after the main events have finished and plan the next steps; and an annual general meeting for the main European collaborative patient organisation.
A small charity with wonderful supporters has achieved this."
- from Chairman Kathleen McCall's welcome to the conference - http://investinme.org/IIMEC14-chairman-message.shtml
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Invest in ME Research is an independent UK charity campaigning and facilitating for biomedical research into myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).
More details of the charity are here.
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