Fundraising Focus – July 2025 The team at ME Research UK is very grateful for all the support which the charity receives from its active fundraisers. At the best of times fundraising can seem a daunting prospect but without your support we could not continue to inform, influence or invest in ME research globally. Our current projects simply would not […]
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ME Research UK – June e-newsletter Promising Findings from Our Researchers “HERV fingerprints” Prof. Elisa Oltra, Dr Karen Giménez-Orenga and colleagues at the University of Valencia have recently published more findings from their ME Research UK-funded study investigating human endogenous retrovirus (HERV) in ME/CFS. The researchers analysed immune cells from women with ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, both conditions, and healthy controls. Using special […]
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ME/CFS June 2025 Delivery Plan Publication Deadline Missed At the beginning of June 2025 all indications were that Ministers fully intended publishing the oft-delayed Delivery Plan on ME/CFS “by the end of June 2025” and that the “… plan will focus on boosting research, improving attitudes and education, and bettering the lives of people with this debilitating disease.” Yet, ME Research UK noted […]
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Big Give Christmas Challenge 2025 – Become a Pledger Today Last year, ME Research UK participated in The Big Give Christmas Challenge and raised over £60,000 of much-needed funds to invest in ME research globally. This year we would like to increase the amount of research we can fund by raising even more through The Big Give. The first step is to ask supporters to […]
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EU Horizon Funding for ME/CFS research The new work programme of Horizon Europe 2025 – 2026 has been published and is a key step towards achieving the EU’s research and innovation priorities outlined in the Horizon Europe strategic plan for 2025-2027. ME/CFS is specifically highlighted in one funding area with the aspects to be considered by funders bearing a great deal […]
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