People with Chronic Complex Diseases deserve the right to live full, productive lives.
OMF’s score of 100 serves as an indicator of trust, demonstrating our longstanding commitment to ensuring accountability, transparency, and measures of financial health, including stability, efficiency and sustainability.
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME / CFS) affects over 20 million people.
Established in 2012, Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) leads the largest, concerted worldwide nonprofit effort to diagnose, treat, and prevent ME / CFS and related chronic, complex diseases such as Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS), Fibromyalgia and Post COVID.
OMF adds urgency to the search for answers by driving transformational philanthropy and investments into global research. We have raised over $28 Million from private donors, and facilitated and funded the establishment of five prestigious ME / CFS Collaborative Research Centers.
Ronald W. Davis, PhD
Director
Innovative, collaborative, multi-disciplinary research
Ronald G. Tompkins, MD, ScD
Wenzhong Xiao, PhD
Co-Directors
Clinical and scientific mechanistic studies towards discovering new treatments
Jonas Bergquist, MD, PhD
Director
Research for biomarkers in body and brain
Alain Moreau, PhD
Director
Clinical and scientific intervention studies
Chris Armstrong, PhD
Director
Precision personalized medicine research program
The current COVID-19 pandemic offers an unprecedented opportunity to understand how a viral infection may convert to ME/CFS in some patients.
The five ME/CFS Collaborative Centers have begun a unique, extensive, in-depth longitudinal molecular study following COVID-19 patients. Their shared goal is to determine the pathways involved in maintaining long-term symptoms in some patients, possibly converting to ME/CFS. They seek to learn about these pathways so as to develop biomarkers, novel drug targets, new treatment, and prevention strategies.
18 world-renowned scientists
2 Nobel laureates
5 National Academy
of Sciences members
Our Vision Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) envisions improved health care for patients suffering from chronic complex diseases with collaboration between the patients, clinicians, and researchers. Our Mission
What isME/CFS? ME/CFS is one of the most common chronic diseases, twice as common as multiple sclerosis. 20 million people have ME/CFS worldwide 1 –
An Update from Chris Armstrong, Director, Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration The Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration is the fifth and newest OMF funded collaborative research center. After making
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