Meet the Scientists: neurodisability researcher and psychologist Dr Elisha Josev from Murdoch Children's Research Institute.
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Meet the Scientists: Chelsea Bartlett and ACU team
Meet occupational therapists from Australian Catholic University conducting research into ME and CFS.
Australia hosts research symposium on ME and chronic fatigue syndrome
by Sasha Nimmo Emerge Australia is hosting an international research symposium on the biological basis, diagnosis, treatment and managment of Myalgic Encephalomylitis and chronic fatigue syndrome in Geelong (near Melbourne), Australia. Parts of the symposium will be live-streamed here. On Wednesday 13 March, Griffith University's Professor Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik and Professor Donald Staines will chair a … Continue reading Australia hosts research symposium on ME and chronic fatigue syndrome
Meet the Scientists: Dr Christopher Armstrong
Meet the Scientists: Dr Christopher Armstrong is an Australian scientist researching Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). He moved to California late last year to take up a position at the Open Medicine Foundation.
Meet the Scientists: Prof Don Staines
Prof Don Staines Professor Don Staines is co-director of the National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases (NCNED) at Australia’s Griffith University, with Professor Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik. Together they have published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers on ME and chronic fatigue syndrome. Professor Staines is an author of the International Consensus Criteria for ME. By Sasha … Continue reading Meet the Scientists: Prof Don Staines
New Australian Research Network holding scientific workshop on ME
by Sasha Nimmo Five Australian universities have joined together, along with the CFS Discovery Clinic, to form the ME/CFS Discovery Research Network or MDRN to collaborate and foster biomedical research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. The network includes: La Trobe University (including Dr Paul Fisher) University of Melbourne (including Dr Neil McGregor and Dr Chris Armstrong) Monash … Continue reading New Australian Research Network holding scientific workshop on ME
Meet the Scientists: Prof Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik
Prof Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik Prof Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik Professor Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik is the co-director of the National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases (NCNED) at Australia’s Griffith University, along with Prof Don Staines, and they have been working in the field of chronic fatigue syndrome and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis for nine years. She is an author of the … Continue reading Meet the Scientists: Prof Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik
Meet the Scientists: Dr Alice Richardson
Meet the Scientists: Dr Alice Richardson, biostatistician from the ANU. Her work is helping diagnose and identify sub-groups of patients with ME.
Meet the Scientists: Fane Mensah
Fane Mensah Fane Mensah is a scientist specialising in infection and immunity at the University College London. Fane recently came to Australia to work alongside Chris Armstrong at Bio 21, Melbourne University. Fane and Chris Armstrong received a research grant by an US organisation, Solve ME/CFS Initiative, to work on a cross-disciplinary project combining the … Continue reading Meet the Scientists: Fane Mensah
Scientists and Dr Tuller brief Australia’s Chief Medical Officer
By Sasha Nimmo Dr David Tuller of the University of California, Berkeley, USA, Christopher Armstrong of Melbourne University, Australia, and Fane Mensah of University College London, UK, met with Australia's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Brendan Murphy, in Canberra recently. Scientists Mr Armstrong and Mr Mensah briefed Prof Murphy on their own metabolomic and immunological research … Continue reading Scientists and Dr Tuller brief Australia’s Chief Medical Officer