Invest in ME have announced the full list of speakers for their annual research conference to be held at 1 Birdcage Walk, Westminster – home of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers – on 29 May 2015. It will be their 10th international event.
SCHEDULED PRESENTATIONS
08.55 Dr Ian Gibson – Conference Opens
09.05 Professor Ian Charles – Keynote Speech: Solving ME: What a Research Park Has to Offer in Resolving a Chronic Disease
09.30 Dr Luis Nacul – Incidence and Prevalence of ME
09.55 Dr Amolak Bansal – Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis: Combining clinic and research
10.25 Refreshments Break
10.50 Professor Mady Hornig – Markers of Immunity and Metabolism in ME/CFS
11.25 Professor Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik Dr Don Staines tbc – Update from National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases – NCNED
11.55 Dr Jo Cambridge – B-cell biology and ME/CFS
12.20 IiME Projects – Student Researchers The Next Generation
12.45 Refreshments Hot buffet Lunch
13.45 Dr Neil Harrison – Immune-Brain Communication and Relationship to Inflammation
14.10 Professor Jonas Bergquist – Proteomics in ME/CFS
14.35 Dr Claire Hutchinson – Biomarkers for ME: Visual Processing and ME/CFS
15.00 Professor Betsy Keller – Molecular markers before/after exercise /Activity guidelines to avoid symptom flares
15.00 Refreshments Break
15.25 Dr John Chia – Enterovirus Research in ME/CFS
16.15 Dr Oystein Fluge / Professor Olav Mella – Multi-centre Rituximab Clinical Trial for ME/CFS
17.10 Plenary Will ME Be Treatable/Cured?
17.30 Dr Ian Gibson – Adjourn
More details HERE