Journal of IiMER provide answers and treatments for this disease. Our efforts are focused on setting up a UK Centre of Excellence for ME that will provide proper examinations and diagnosis for ME patients and a coordinated strategy of translational biomedical research into this disease. Now our twelfth conference is taking place in 2017, as always in Westminster, London, and as the charity has embarked on a new decade of finding, funding and facilitating biomedical research into ME, and research into ME in order to find treatment(s) and cure(s). Our supporters have achieved an incredible feat in making something out of nothing and creating an opportunity for real progress to be attained for ME research. Now, with solid progress made in establishing the UK Centre we can look for more rapid progress in the coming years as CDC and NIH demonstrate more acceptance of this disease and new initiatives continue to realise the charity’s goal of international collaboration in research into ME. These initiatives will eventually drag and force complacent and ineffectual organisations into taking action rather than false posturing. Good collaborations have been built between UK, European, and US organisations that can only strengthen the level and quality of biomedical www.investinme.org increasing knowledge and awareness of the disease. Our conferences and, later, our closed research colloquiums were organised from the beginning in order to provide a platform for research and a means of facilitating education about ME. For Invest in ME Research, education and research are the key to progress, and hence change. The IiMER conferences have formed a crucial part of this education and our research colloquia form a crucial and productive part of the research. The conferences now regularly attract delegates (researchers, clinicians, nurses, patient groups and patients, advocates and, we always hope, a sprinkling of as many politicians, journalists and others whom Invest in ME self-fund to allow people to be exposed to real science) from twenty countries in a unique international event that is friendly and conducive for learning and Page 5 of 82
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