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JAX Hosts Free Community Event to Share CFS Research
Event is June 14 @5:30 pm; Researcher to Give TED-style Talk on Latest Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Breakthroughs
The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) is hosting a free community educational event on Thursday, June 14 at 5:30 p.m. to share the most cutting-edge research in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS). JAX Professor and immunologist Derya Unutmaz, M.D., will give a TED-style talk about his search to find an efficient way to diagnosis and eventually treat ME/CFS.
ME/CFS is a debilitating and poorly understood condition impacting between 836,000 to 2.5 million people. Its cause is currently unknown, and there is no definitive way to diagnosis the condition. Symptoms include profound fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, sleep abnormalities and pain.
Unutmaz has set a bold goal to improve patients’ quality of life by tracking down the immune, metabolic and microbiome changes in patients that contribute to the manifestation of the disease. Optimistic about the future, he envisions that something as simple as a blood test could screen for immunological biomarkers of ME/CFS and also lead to effective treatments.
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Unutmaz recently received a $10.6 million center grant from the NIH to study ME/CFS as part of a multi-institutional research effort to create one of the most highly detailed collections of clinical and biological ME/CFS patient data. The goal of this research is to enhance the knowledge and understanding of ME/CFS and create a diagnostic tool which may lead to treatments. The grant builds on his previous $3.3 million award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The event is the third in JAX’s new speaker series, JAXtaposition: Cures Can’t Wait ,which features TED-style talks on cutting-edge programs and research from JAX scientists and leadership.
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To register, please visit: https://www.jax.org/give-to-jax/events/jaxtaposition-chronic.
About The Jackson Laboratory
The Jackson Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution based in Bar Harbor, Maine, with a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center, a facility in Sacramento, Calif., and a genomic medicine institute in Farmington, Conn. It employs 2,100 staff, and its mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health. For more information, please visit www.jax.org.
