Joint Collaboration to Fund Latest CFIDS/ME Research Aimed at Assessing
Disease Damage
The National CFIDS Foundation, of Needham, MA, in collaboration with The
Nancy Taylor 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 Nancy A. Taylor Foundation, have united together to work to
continue to push the scientific knowledgebase of CFIDS/ME."
The Nancy A. Taylor Foundation's President, Dr. Edward Taylor, 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.
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