Maureen Hanson

Today David Iu, a PhD student in Andrew Grimson's lab at the Cornell ME/CFS Center, passed his thesis exam. As well as co-authoring several published papers already, David will be completing another manuscript on immune cells in ME.

Our latest ME/CFS paper examines the content of extracellular vesicles in male ME patients vs controls before and after exercise. Among pathways implicated are the TCA cycle, complement system, protein folding, ER stress tinyurl.com/266nsx9a

Our collaborative research paper evaluating ME/CFS cases for autoantibodies is now available mdpi.com/1422-0067/26/6…

Thank you to the Vienna Philharmonic for donating 25,000€ to advance #MECFS research at the occasion of their iconic New Year’s Concert. This generous support brings hope and makes a lasting impact in the fight against this disabling and terrifying disease.💙 Wishing everyone a…

📢 New insights into #MECFS: Research from our Center reveals how T cells become exhausted in ME/CFS patients. 🧬 Learn more about the study and its implications in the @CornellChronicle article: news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/1… #TCells #Immunology

We include subjects in our ME/CFS studies without regard to what trigger individuals describe as the cause of their pre-2020 illness, as long as the subjects fit standard ME/CFS diagnostic criteria. Opportunities to participate here: neuroimmune.cornell.edu/research/parti…

"Infection-associated" does not mean that an infection is still be present, although the finding of T cell exhaustion in our work and that of others is consistent with this possibility. Additional research comparing ME/CFS to other IACCs is essential!

While ME/CFS is infection-associated because the majority of cases can trace onset to an immediately preceding infection, often of unknown identity, further research must be done to find whether or not every case requires infection (e.g., as in MS).

The latest paper from the Cornell Center is available at the PNAS website. Our study implicates T cell exhaustion in ME/CFS.

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Excited to share this @ScienceTM viewpoint with @DrMaureenHanson on why #LongCOVID #MECFS and other infection-associated chronic conditions should be studied together as part of a coordinated research agenda. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

See our article in STM that advocates for studying known IACCs together science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Invest in ME Research 2024 Conference videos are now available on YouTube youtube.com/user/iimeinfo They include talks by Maureen Hanson @DrMaureenHanson , Rob Wüst @RobWust , Ron Davis, David Systrom and Brian Walitt and seven others. #MEcfs #PwME #CFS

#mdpiMedicina #TopCitedPaper 📢Recovery from Exercise in Persons with #myalgicencephalomyelitis /#Chronic #Fatigue #syndrome (ME/CFS) ✍️By Geoffrey E. Moore et al. 👉mdpi.com/1648-9144/59/3…

Dr. Betsy Keller deserves the credit for bringing this project to a conclusion and is the primary author of the manuscript.

It was great to see former graduate student Jessica Maya at the InvestinME meeting. She is continuing ME/CFS research as a postdoctoral fellow at CDC in Atlanta. She participated in the Young EMERG meeting.

The report of the physiological data from the Cornell Center two-day CPET study is now out: tinyurl.com/yu3c6bpu. We are working on several new manuscripts utilizing blood samples collected before and after each CPET.

An introduction and eight chapters review important literature concerning ME/CFS. See many recommendations for research by the committee participants and the public.

As World ME day and Mother’s Day coincide this year, let’s recognize that many mothers are caring for not only juveniles with ME, but also for their adult children with ME who have been ill for decades.

More about the evidence for the viral origin of ME.