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You are the Motivation
behind our Momentum

Your support is the driver of the End ME/CFS Project. Your donations spur our research and progress. Because of you, OMF has built a global network of brilliant researchers dedicated to finding a cure.

You are the Motivation
behind our Momentum

Your support is the driver of the End ME/CFS Project. Your donations spur our research and progress. Because of you, OMF has built a global network of brilliant researchers dedicated to finding a cure.

The challenges are real, but we won’t lose momentum. Not with you on our team.

When You Give to OMF

Research Gains Momentum

Support our annual May Momentum Campaign, and fund research into groundbreaking treatments and a cure for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME / CFS). Since its inception, OMF has raised over $24 Million for ME / CFS research from private donors, making us the world’s largest ME / CFS research private funder.

Will you please support our annual May Momentum Campaign today, and help OMF keep up the momentum to find answers, treatments and a cure for ME / CFS?  With you on our team, we all have a reason to be hopeful!

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TODAY

Join patients, parents, caregivers, advocates, and dedicated scientists and clinicians, who have joined together to fight this devastating disease.

When You Support OMF Today

Your contribution funds open and collaborative researchers who are working every day to help all ME / CFS patients have a healthier tomorrow.
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SUSTAINING DONOR

Our Sustaining Donors are the lifeblood of OMF. You will help OMF provide uninterrupted investment in ME/CFS research, bringing us closer to the answers we all seek.

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You help OMF provide uninterrupted investment in ME / CFS research, bringing us closer to the answers we all seek.
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Do you have someone special that you would like to honor? There is no better way to honor or celebrate a loved one than a gift to OMF.

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Make a donation in honor of your loved one's birthday, wedding, other special event, or in memory of. We will inform them of your kind gift (not disclosing the amount).
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Help to raise critical funds to support research doing something you enjoy. Your favorite activities can all be done to raise critical dollars for OMF’s research and education.
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We are announcing

THREE
major research projects throughout May!

OMF forges partnerships

between many of the world’s leading ME/CFS researchers

We fund research projects with real-life implications for ME/CFS sufferers.

OMF is funding two exciting pilot treatment trials, Mestinon  and Kynurenine. The outcome of this research will be to determine what biological factors might be relevant to their success or failure at treating the symptoms of people diagnosed with ME/CFS. Ultimately the data generated will help to better understand the pathogenesis of ME/CFS towards finding effective treatments.

In a rapid response to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, Open Medicine Foundation has launched a study to track patients with COVID-19 that have been discharged from the ICU, with the expectation that some will develop ME/CFS. The tracking of these participants will involve sample collection for testing of biological factors, continuous health tracking via wearables and symptom data collection for many separate timepoints over the course of two years.  

This presents an unprecedented opportunity to study the biological factors that differentiate why some people develop ME/CFS following infection and why some people recover completely.

New Research Projects

Advancements in ME / CFS Research, David M. Systrom, MD; Brigham and Women's Hospital
Mestinon Clinical Trial
This clinical trial will test the exercise response to Mestinon in people with ME/CFS.
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Kynurenine Clinical Trial
Open Medicine Foundation is excited to announce its support of an initiation of a clinical trial to understand potential disturbances in the tryptophan metabolism and ...
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You are the Motivation
behind our Momentum

Images generously submitted by people with ME / CFS for #FlashbackFriday. Thank You!



Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME / CFS) Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS), Fibromyalgia Leading Research. Delivering Hope.Open Medicine Foundation®

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