Invest in ME Research is a UK charity facilitating and funding a strategy of biomedical research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME or ME/CFS) and promoting better education about ME.

For eleven years the charity has been arranging an international CPD-accedited biomedical research conference on ME.
The IiMER annual conferences and research colloquiums arranged by the charity now attract presenters, researchers, physicians, patient groups and journalists from around the world.
The international research colloquiums aim to increase international collaboration on research into ME.
On this site one will find a description of the latest conference and links to previous conferences including details of the presenters.

Click on the image above to go to the latest Conference page - IIMEC12.

The BRMEC7 research colloquium will be on 31st May - 1^st June 2017.

The IIMEC12 conference will be on 2^nd June 2017.

Research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis - specifically biomedical research into ME - has, thanks to conferences and research meetings organised by Invest in ME, emerged into the mainstream of of research and is receiving increasingly more attention from both major international research institutes in several countries as well as national health organisations.

Organisations responsible for medical research in several countries have stated that ME should receive more urgent attention. In Norway the Norwegian Health Directorate have allocated funding for biomedical research into ME following the 2011 double blind randomised clinical trial using Rituximab (Anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody) by Fluge et al (PLoS 6:10.Oct 2011) to successfully treat ME patients. There is increasing research evidence of immune dysfunction in ME patients.
Even the UK MRC has finally acknowledged -
"There is now preliminary evidence supporting the view that inflammatory mechanisms in the brain and spinal cord may underlie the pathophysiology of some severe disease CFS/ME phenotypes."
The Invest in ME Research ME conferences have shown the major initiatives and research over the years to set up a collaborative strategy for biomedical research into ME to further this complex but exciting area of research leading to appropriate patient care and mainstreaming this field of research as well as this disease.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND IIMER CONFERENCES

The Invest in ME Research conferences appeal to healthcare professionals, doctors, nurses, paediatricians, occupational therapists, researchers, ME support groups, people with ME and those working in social services, educational support and the media. The conference provides an opportunity for people within government, health departments, social services and education to be able to be informed of the true nature of ME and of the current status of diagnosis, treatment and current/future biomedical research possibilities.

CONFERENCE HELP

If help or information is required regarding any aspect of the conferences please use our Contact Us page.
Our main web site is at www.investinme.org

PAST IiME CONFERENCES

All conferences are described on this web site.
The conference regularly attracts clinicians, researchers, healthcare staff, charities, support groups and patients and carers from up to twenty countries around the world.
This allows unique networking opportunities and increase the potential for one of the charity's main objectives - international collaboration between researchers.