ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 02/07/20261) 🇪🇺 Good news! The European Union has awarded € 7.5 million for a big ME/CFS consortium that will study biological mechanisms in hundreds of patients. This is a major milestone for ME/CFS research in Europe. 18024
ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 02/07/20262) The project is called DISCOVER-ME. It's led by Eva Untersmayr at the Medical University of Vienna and includes more than 20 partners across Europe. The European ME Alliance (EMEA) is involved as patient representatives. The grant runs for 4 years, until 2030. 191
ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 02/07/20263) The project will investigate biomarkers across (epi)genetic, immune, metabolic, neuroendocrine, and vascular domains. It will phenotype 2,000 patients and perform multi-omics profiling on more than 900 samples from five different European biobanks. 190
