Events

Upcoming Events​

Interagency ME/CFS Working Group Meeting
August 11, 2020
3:00-5:00 ET

• Videocast
• Agenda

For the question and answer session, we invite questions from the public about the Interagency ME/CFS Working Group and topics on the agenda. Please submit questions to MECFSInteragencyWG@ninds.nih.gov by close of business (COB) Thursday, August 6, 2020. We will try to answer as many as possible in the time allotted.

Past Events

• NIH ME/CFS Advocacy Call
  March 17, 2020
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• NIH ME/CFS Advocacy Call
  October 17, 2019
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• NIH ME/CFS Advocacy Call
  August 19, 2019
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• NIH ME/CFS Advocacy Call
  April 9, 2019 
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• Accelerating Research on ME/CFS Meeting
  April 4-5, 2019 
  Videocast Day 1
  Videocast Day 2
• Thinking the Future A Workshop for Young Early Career ME CFS Investigators
  April 3, 2019
• NIH ME/CFS Advocacy Call
  October 23, 2018 
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• NIH ME/CFS Advocacy Call
  July 19, 2018
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• CFS Advisory Committee Meeting
  June 20-21, 2018
• NIH ME/CFS Advocacy Call
  March 7, 2018 
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• CFS Advisory Committee Meeting
  December 13-14, 2017
• NIH ME/CFS Advocacy Call
  November 28, 2017 at 1pm ET
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• NIH ME/CFS Advocacy Call
  July 10, 2017 at 12pm ET
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• CFS Advisory Committee Meeting
  June 29-30, 2017
• FOCiS (Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies) Conference - Chicago, IL
  June 14-17, 2017
  Session on ME/CFS organized by Joseph Breen, PhD from NIAID will take place on Wednesday, June 14, 2017
  Joseph Breen, PhD and Vicky Whittemore, PhD will participate in this session
• SLEEP 2017 – Boston, MA
  June 4-7, 2017
  Session on Sleep, Cytokines and Fatigue – Joseph Breen, PhD and Vicky Whittemore, PhD will participate in this session
• Invest in ME Research International ME Conference 2017 – London, UK
  June 2, 2017
• 7^th Biomedical Research into ME Colloquium 2017 – London, UK​
  May 31 – June 1, 2017
• ME/CFS RFA Webinar for Prospective Applicants
  February 13, 2017, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. EST
  This presentation will provide an opportunity for investigators to learn more about the recently released Requests for Application on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) research (RFA-NS-17-021 and RFA-NS-022).

  Webinar: Event number: 626 209 477, Event password: 5qFjcHbu
  Online: https://nih.webex.com/nih/onstage/g.php?MTID=e4d8b4192beadf857269542c3b689fc74
  Audio only: Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada): 1-877-668-4493, Call-in toll number (US/Canada): 1-650-479-3208, Global call-in numbers, Toll-free dialing restrictions, Access code: 626 209 477

• NIH ME/CFS Advocacy Call
  February 1, 2017
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• CFS Advisory Committee Meeting
  January 12-13, 2017
  http://www.hhs.gov/ash/advisory-committees/cfsac/#
• NIH ME/CFS Advocacy Call
  November 2, 2016
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• 2016 Biennial Conference: International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (IACFSME)
  October 27-30, 2016
  Westin Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
  Registration: http://iacfsme.org
  Funding: A conference grant to the IACFSME was funded by the following NIH organizations: NIH Participation: Vicky Whittemore, Ph.D. (NINDS), NIH Representative to the HHS CFS Advisory Committee, will be a keynote speaker; will participate in a professional workshop entitled “NIH Grant Writing Workshop” together with Joseph Breen, Ph.D. (NIAID) and Cheryl Kitt, Ph.D., NIH Office of Extramural Research; and will discuss the new NIH/CDC effort to develop common data elements for ME/CFS research in an evening session at the conference. William Ellwood, Ph.D. from the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research will give a presentation in a professional workshop entitled “Nothing about us without us: how community-engaged research can accelerate progress in the field of ME/CFS”.
  Vicky Whittemore, Ph.D. presentation at IACFSME.
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
  • National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
  • National Library of Medicine
  • NIH Office of the Director
• NIH ME/CFS Advocacy Call
  March 8, 2016
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• Pathway to Prevention (P2P) Workshop: Advancing the Research on ME/CFS
  December 9–10, 2014
  Program Book
  Final Panel Report
  Full Evidence Report
  P2P ME/CFS Federal Partners Meeting Report​
  Day 1 Videocast — December 9, 2014
  Day 2 Videocast — December 10, 2014
• Institute of Medicine Expert Committee Meeting on ME/CFS
  January 17 and May 5, 2014
  Final Report
• State of the Knowledge Workshop on ME/CFS
  April 7–8, 2011
  Letter to Workshop Participants
  Final Report
  Day 1 Videocast — April 7, 2011
  Day 2 Videocast — April 8, 2011