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ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 31/08/2026

1) Very sad news that Jo Cambridge has passed away. She was a Prof. in rheumatology who pioneered B-cell depletion therapy in autoimmune diseases together with Jonathan Edwards. But she also did several useful studies on ME/CFS and was much loved in the community.

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ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 31/08/2026

2) Some of the most in-depth studies on B-cells in ME/CFS were done by her group (I recently re-read them when writing an overview of findings in the immune system). Here's an example where they found increased expression of CD38: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih....

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ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 31/08/2026

3) There's a nice obituary for prof. Cambridge in the Guardian that mentions: "when she died she was investigating the origins of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS)."

theguardian.com

Jo Cambridge obituary

Other lives: Professor whose research led to immunotherapies that have improved the lives of countless individuals

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