Latest CFIDS/ME Research Aimed at Assessing Disease Damage

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From: http://www.ncf-net.org/library/PressReleaseDec11.htm

Press Release Dec 1 2011

Joint Collaboration to Fund Latest CFIDS/ME Research Aimed at Assessing

Disease Damage

The National CFIDS Foundation, of Needham, MA, in collaboration with The

Foundation for Chronic Diseases, of Tulsa, OK, have

announced their latest research grant aimed at assessing disease damage

in patients with CFIDS/ME utilizing advanced molecular cytogenetic

technology.

Henry Heng, PhD is the recipient of a $133,233 research grant titled

" Linking genomic instability to CFIDS/ME. " Dr. Heng is an Associate

Professor at the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics at Wayne

State University School of Medicine in Detroit, MI.

Dr. Heng, who has expertise in molecular cytogenetics, genome structure

and function, as well as genomic instability and cancer progression, has

published extensively in this field of science.

Alan Cocchetto, NCF's Medical Director, stated that " The technology used

to assess genomic instability, known as spectral karyotyping (SKY)

analysis, will allow us to look for chromosomal aberrations. Though this

type of advanced genomic testing has never been applied to this patient

population, it should prove to be a methodical link to research that we

had previously completed. "

Gail Kansky, NCF's President, commented that " We are very fortunate to

link up with Dr. Heng for this exciting research study. The NCF, in

collaboration with the A. Foundation, have united together

to work to continue to push the scientific knowledgebase of CFIDS/ME. "

The A. Foundation's President, Dr. , also

stated that " We were very impressed by Dr. Heng's previous work

evaluating genomic instability using SKY analysis in Gulf War Illness. "

As a leading lab of molecular cytogenomics, Dr. Heng's group has

significantly contributed to increasing our medical knowledge about

cancer progression and the importance of chromosome aberrations in this

process. This research study should help in evaluating whether or not

this same process is applicable to CFIDS/ME.

The National CFIDS Foundation has directed $1.2 million dollars in

scientific grants since forming its cutting-edge research program in

2002. Further information on this research will be in the winter edition

of our newsletter. All donations to the National CFIDS Foundation may be

made via our website at www.ncf-net.org <http://www.ncf-net.org> or via

submission to the National CFIDS Foundation, 103 Aletha Rd., Needham, MA

02492 and 100% of every donation is used to further research unless

otherwise specified by the donor.

A video link on SKY Testing is available for viewing on Youtube

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