Researching ME/CFS: priority area

Open UKRI funding opportunity · Fellowship, Grant. Open with no closing date. Opportunity page: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/researching-me-cfs-priority-area/

Apply for funding to research myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as ME/CFS.

You can get the funding through any of MRC’s funding schemes.

We particularly welcome applications within MRC remit that address one or more of the research areas identified by the ME/CFS Priority Setting Partnership for ME/CFS research:

- aetiology of post-exertional malaise

- pathways to repurposing of approved drugs for other conditions

- accurate and reliable diagnostic tools

- investigating the role of the immune system in ME/CFS

- stratification of ME/CFS

- evaluation of post-infection disease in ME/CFS

- neurological symptomology

- genetic links to ME/CFS susceptibility or disease

- drivers of severity in ME/CFS

- investigation of potential mitochondrial dysfunction in ME/CFS

- investigation of oxygenation dysfunction in ME/CFS

We will usually fund up to 80% of your project’s full economic cost.

What we're looking for Building our portfolio of ME/CFS research has been a high priority for MRC for a number of years. This funding priority notice, which has been in place since 2003, seeks to encourage high-quality funding applications to any of our grant or fellowship funding opportunities.

MRC research strategy and funding history for ME/CFS.

Research areas

In 2022, MRC co-funded an ME/CFS Priority Setting Partnership to identify the top 10+ ME/CFS research priorities. The partnership was led by people with ME/CFS, their carers and clinicians, and facilitated by non-profit making initiative, the James Lind Alliance.

We particularly welcome applications within MRC remit, that address one or more of the research areas identified by the ME/CFS Priority Setting Partnership:

- what is the biological mechanism that causes post-exertional malaise (symptoms caused or made worse by…