Tissue Bank update
16 December 2009
Phase 2 of the Tissue Archive feasibility study will begin in January led by
the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
This phase will address the questions surrounding the collection of tissue
from live people and how it would be made available for biological research
into M.E. Action for M.E. funded all of phase 1. Phase 2 is co-funded by
Action for M.E. and the MEA.
Our Chief Executive, Sir Peter Spencer, commented:
"This is a very important extension of the earlier work on post mortem
tissue. I am particularly encouraged by the high priority placed on
pathological studies by many of the attendees at the recent MRC expert
workshop on M.E./CFS research.
"There is a huge opportunity here to establish evidence that might help to
persuade Government research funders to set up a tissue archive to underpin
key aspects of research into this devastating chronic condition".
Learn more about the tissue bank
http://www.afme.org.uk/res/img/resources/IA70%20Tissue%20Bank%20Page%2010-11
.pdf
from an article in the most recent issue
of InterAction http://www.afme.org.uk/interaction.asp, our quarterly members
magazine.
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