ME Research UK
The Gateway
North Methven Street
Perth PH1 5PP

6th October, 2007

Dear Neil and Vance,

Please accept my congratulations on the resounding success of The New Horizons International Conference on ME/CFS Biomedical Research which you organised and held in Edinburgh.  I read the latest edition of “Breakthrough” and feel quietly optimistic about research currently being carried out.

I’m also delighted to once again enclose our cheque - The VegEPA for ME Scheme’s 5th so far.

The Scheme has today reached the amazing total of 3000 Members (from all over the world) in just 18 months and it is from our Members’ most recent orders of VegEPA that we are able to send you this latest donation of £2,800, bringing our grand total so far to £13,700. 

We shall continue raising money to help fund the 10 biomedical research studies you have on your books at the present time and have full confidence in your ability to identify and review future projects into this devastating illness.  We aim to send you further cheques from The Scheme in the near future.

An electronic file of your Blue Certificate would be nice so we can put it on the website (as well as a paper one for my office wall)!

With all our very best wishes for all your endeavours ,

Lynne Kersh
The Vegepa for ME Scheme

 

26 October 2007

Dear Lynne

On behalf of the trustees of ME Research UK I would like to thank you very much indeed for the latest donation of £2,800.00.

As you already know we do not receive any central funding and rely almost entirely on personal donations and fundraising events to fund our biomedical research into this most debilitating illness.  Therefore, your personal donation from your scheme is most welcome.  Thanks to similar donations we have recently been able to action the new projects listed below, and another three will be announced in the next few weeks.

• Longitudinal cohort study to determine the prevalence of autonomic dysfunction and relationship with outcome in patients with ME/CFS (Dr Julia Newton, School of Clinical Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle).
• Post-exertional malaise in ME/CFS: the role of intracellular immunity and sensory processing (Dr Jo Nijs, University College Antwerp)
• Focal and global endothelial function and their association with arterial stiffness in ME/CFS (Dr Faisel Khan, University of Dundee).
• Confirmatory study of gene expression in the peripheral blood of veterans with ME/CFS (Dr Jonathan Kerr at St George’s University of London)

We thank you once again for your support and interest in our work.  

With kind regards and best wishes.

Yours sincerely

Priscilla Wares (Mrs)
Administrator