People with M.E. need better treatment and support. This can only be achieved through increasing the quality of research; by coordinating a stronger collaborative approach to stimulate more research through bringing in expertise from outside the field and supporting early stage career researchers; and by working strategically to increase funding for research. The UK CFS/M.E. Research Collaborative (CMRC) was set up to achieve these aims.

The CMRC Executive Board is delighted to announce that the Wellcome Trust and Arthritis Research UK have each made a £10,000 contribution to fund the CMRC’s second annual conference and support the ongoing work of the Collaborative. This commitment builds on the support from the Medical Research Council (MRC) which has, over the past two years, provided critical funding to support two conferences and the future work of the CMRC.

Research Conference 2015

Wellcome Trust “The UK’s largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research.”

The research conference takes place Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 October 2015 in Newcastle when Professor Jose Montoya from the Stanford ME/CFS Initiative will be making a keynote speech.

Arthritis Research UK will be co-facilitating a workshop for researchers and Associate Members on fatigue, exploring what we can learn from research in the two illness fields and what further potential there is for collaboration in the future.