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News Items 2024
Sad news on EMERG member Sture Eriksson
A new milestone: Young EMERG/EMEA/EMERG joined the Youth4Health initiative
A symposium in Belgrade with EMERG researchers participating
New members of EMERG are announced and an update on the EMERG application
September 2024: - Young EMERG Workshop Spans Two Days
Next year's Young EMERG workshop will now be spread over two days during the International ME Conference Week
News Items 2023
UK charity Invest in ME Research and EMERG announce the resumption of the European young/early career researcher network - Young EMERG. An additional event is now planned for International ME Conference Week for the group to meet, along with early career investigators from other countries and continents.
News Items 2022
EMERG members have collaborated in HPV research and the following paper has now been published -
Autoimmunity in patients reporting long-term complications after exposure
to human papilloma virus vaccination
Several EMERG researchers were involved in this paper - including EMERG co-chair Dr Jesper Mehlsen.
In June 2021 at UK charity Invest in ME Research's tenth annual International Biomedical Research into ME Colloquium
(#BRMEC10) ME researchers from around the world met up to discuss research, both past and current,
The agenda was created with the help of The European ME Research Group
and was developed to test popular hypotheses that explain the aetiology of ME.
These included: immunogenetics and dysfunctional immune responses; an abnormal autonomous nervous system
and autoimmunity; mitochondrial metabolic dysfunction; and altered host-microbe (commensal and pathogen)
interactions.
A paper has been published that summarises discussions in one of the hypotheses from one of the Colloquium
sessions - that immune dysfunction and viral factors may drive the development and progression of ME.
EMERG member Hanna Ollila has been granted an award from the Academy of Finland for research into ME.
This was one of 22 new Academy Research Fellows selected in biosciences, health and environmental research.
The selections emphasised the high scientific quality of the projects and international research cooperation.
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EMERG member from Spain, Professor Elisa Oltra, presented at the #BRMEC10 Colloquium recently. The Gene Expression and Immunity research group of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the Catholic University of Valencia (UCV), where Elisa is the principal investigator, recently discussed her work and that of UCV research group member Karen Giménez.
Researchers in Bergen suggest that ME can be linked to a failure in the energy supply to the cells.
They compared blood samples from patients with ME and a control group.
Researchers at the University of Bergen and Haukeland University Hospital, among others, have found differences in blood samples from ME patients and healthy people.
EMERG played a major part in the recent 10th Invest in ME Research International Biomedical Research into ME Colloquium #BRMEC10
that was held recently.
The main part of the agenda was formulated by EMERG in collaboration with the UK charity.
A report will be available from the Invest in ME Research web site. More information will be in the EMERG site in due course.