The last decades have seen no major investment into correct research into myalgic encephalomyelitis.
Instead an approach to research has been taken which, despite objections from the patient community, has largely funded
flawed psychiatric research about the disease.
This needs to be changed. Funding has to be given to biomedical research and new knowledge from other disciplines such as virology, immunology , endocrinology etc has to be brought in to help research into ME.
The most promising route to finding cause and treatment
In order to perform clinical trials the cohort of patients being used need to be correctly categorised. This demands consultants to correctly diagnose ME. This does not occur in all cases presently.
Education about ME is the foundation for future treatments. Medical students and the government and media outlets need correct and up-to-date information and education about ME.
There has been very little funding for biomedical research into ME.
Invest in ME Research has produced a strategy of answers to the major problems and we are attempting as best we can to effect the necessary change.
Invest in ME Research has initiated and funded high-quality biomedical research at UCL and UEA and IFR - and brought in collaborations with other researchers in Bergen, Uppsala, Berlin and within the UK in Oxford. Research
Our aim is to have consultants who specialise in ME performing a thorough set of examinations for people with ME.
We have implemented a plan to educate medical students by allowing them to intercalate in their fourth year of training into biomedical research projects we are funding.
Invest in ME Research and supporters have raised almost £700,000 in recent years for biomedical research.
Invest in ME Research (IiMER) was set up with the objectives of making a change in how ME is perceived and treated in the media, by health departments and by healthcare professionals. We aim to do this by identifying the three key areas to concentrate our efforts on - funding for biomedical research, education and lobbying. Invest in ME Research aims to collaborate and coordinate events and activities in these areas in order to provide the focus and funding to allow biomedical research to be carried out.
Invest in ME Research want to establish an international strategy of biomedical research into ME and establish a UK and European Centre of Excellence
for biomedical research into ME.
Please help make ME an illness which is properly understood and where adequate funding is provided for biomedical research into
ME allowing treatments and cures to be found.
Building a solid foundation for future biomedical research into ME.
"....with the other expertise and facilities located at the Norwich Research Park, puts it in a very good position to lead a UK and European Centre of Excellence for biomedical research for M.E. to provide possible prevention and solutions."
- Professor Ian Charles Director of Institute of Food Research and Head of Quadram Institute
Our research strategy and the research funded by the charity
Information and articles about ME
Our annual international Colloquiums/Conferences
Details of our fundraising activities and how to help us
Current and archived news from the charity
More information about the charity
Our proposal for a UK Centre of Excellence for ME
Useful educational aids for ME awareness
Our Current Colloquium and Conference was in May-June 2017.
The BRMEC7 research Colloquium was held on 31st May - 1st June 2017.
The IIMEC12 Conference was held on 2nd June 2017.
Click on the image on the right to go to the latest Conference page - #IIMEC12.
read moreIIMER are facilitating a strategy of biomedical research into ME.
The charity is currently funding possibly the two most important research projects for ME in the UK.
Currently the main hubs of research are at UEA/IFR in the Norwich Research Park and at UCL.
The IIMER Advisory Board is made up of eminent reseachers who are helping the charity to form a credible and productive biomedical research strategy which will provide the best and quickest route for translating research into possible treatments and cures for this disease.
Invest in ME Research are one of the founder members of the European ME Alliance (EMEA) – a grouping of charities and patient organisations working together across Europe. Now thirteen countries collaborating.
Let's do it for ME! is a patient-driven campaign to raise awareness and vital funds for a UK Centre of Excellence for translational biomedical research into ME, clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment for patients, training and information for healthcare staff, which would be based around the Norwich Research Park in the UK and aiming to work collaboratively with international biomedical researchers.
In addition to the International ME Conference the charity also organises an annual International Research Colloquium which attracts researchers from around the world in order to discuss experiences and open up collaborations in order to find answers for this disease. By facilitating and initiating these links far quicker progress can be made in finding the cause of this disease.
Translational biomedical research - an iterative feedback of information between the basic and clinical research domains in order to accelerate knowledge translation from lab to bedside and back to lab again - allows translation of findings in basic research more quickly and efficiently into medical practice to produce more meaningful health outcomes and facilitate the sharing of repositories and research-based facilities and laboratories. This is the model IiMER are attempting to promote in our proposal for an examination and research facility based in Norwich.
The European ME Alliance is a grouping of European organisations who are involved in supporting patients suffering from myalgic encephalomyelitis and are campaigning for funding for biomedical research to provide treatments and cures for ME.