Since our inception in 2012, Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) has raised over $35 million to fund open and collaborative research and improve health care for millions suffering with multi-system chronic, complex diseases (msCCD) such as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Long COVID, Post-Treatment Lyme Disease, and Fibromyalgia. We have facilitated and funded the establishment of 6 research centers across the globe, in 4 countries and 3 continents, dedicated to diagnosing, treating, and ultimately preventing these related chronic, complex diseases.
Open Medicine Foundation is a US based global nonprofit, with an affiliate organization in Canada (OMF Canada) and a foreign branch in Australia (OMF Australia Ltd). Our 19 member Scientific Advisory Board is world renowned and includes two Nobel laureates and 6 National Academy of Sciences members.
Ronald W. Davis, PhD
Director
Innovative, collaborative, multi-disciplinary research
Wenzhong Xiao, PhD
Co-Director
David Systrom, MD
Co-Director
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 research program
Wenzhong Xiao, PhD
Director
From data to disease mechanism and treatments
The current COVID-19 pandemic offers an unprecedented opportunity to understand how a viral infection may convert to ME/CFS in some patients.
The six ME/CFS Collaborative Research 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.
19 world-renowned scientists
2 Nobel laureates
6 National Academy
of Sciences members
Christian Godbout, a person with ME, speaks out on the history of ME/CFS and why we must amplify all Voices of ME A history of
The aim is to investigate potential differences in adrenergic and muscarinic receptor autoantibody levels in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid samples between ME/CFS patients and healthy controls.
This project aims to test the nitrogen hypothesis, which is that damaging, nitrogen-containing by-products of energy metabolism accumulate more readily in the cells of ME/CFS patients.
Please help us expand our research efforts across the globe.
Every donation brings us closer to a fully funded research effort and the answers we all seek.
"Our donors want to stop millions from suffering and have come to expect research with impeccable credibility. The time is now to attract the kind of serious investment that will speed up our search for a cure and end these debilitating diseases."
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