June 16 - Jose Montoya Webinar - The Solve ME/CFS Initiative

[Who Me?]

On June 16, we’ll host Jose Montoya, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Stanford University Medical Center. Dr. Montoya leads the Stanford Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Initiative.

http://solvecfs.org/2016+Webinars+Announced

 

[Cort]

http://solvecfs.org/2016+Webinars+Announced

Thanks for the reminder. I hope Dr. Montoya can talk about his upcoming publications. (I hope there are upcoming publications!)

 

[Who Me?]

I just posted the Younger Webinar on the other thread.

 

[weyland]

Thanks for the reminder. I hope Dr. Montoya can talk about his upcoming publications. (I hope there are upcoming publications!)

Seriously. Stanford is still sitting on like 2-3 papers aren't they?

 

[Ron]

I think I heard the Montoya webinar has been canceled and will be rescheduled. I've been waiting for him to have his Cytokine paper published it's only overdue by a couple years. Here is a good blog done a few years ago based on a symposium he had with study participants to go over his findings.

http://cfswarrior.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-stanford-study.html

 

[Who Me?]

There's nothing on their Facebook page about it being rescheduled. I'll ask

 

[Cort]

Seriously. Stanford is still sitting on like 2-3 papers aren't they?

Check this out;

Montoya got a $5 million donation in 2008. He's also got other donations...

This is what has been accomplished:

• The Stanford program has published two papers that I can find since then - the leptin paper by Jarred Younger and the brain imaging Zeineh paper; they did publish some valganciclovir papers but it took them 6/7 years to get the second valganciclovir study out...
• In the newsletter last year he stated that two Zinn papers would be published soon; they both left and decamped to Chicago where they are working with Lenny Jason
• In the 2014 Symposium presenters stated that gene expression tests showed that ME/CFS was an inflammatory disorder - no papers have been published
• The 2015 Spring newsletter stated they and Dr. Lipkin had "exciting" pathogen results; nothing has been published
• They stated they were running 600 samples through Mark Davis's machine - that never happened

http://www.healthrising.org/blog/2014/03/20/tweeting-stanford-symposium-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/

There's more - off the top of my head I can't remember everything but that Stanford program is severely underproducing plus the Zinn's and Younger are gone. I tried to send him a list of questions but the only email I could find didn't work...I have found some other avenues, though, and will try them.

On the face of it it doesn't look good.

 

[weyland]

On the face of it it doesn't look good.

Agreed, the silence is deafening. I had thought maybe they were saving everything up for one big publishing blitz but now I'm not so sure.

 

[Cort]

Me too. Hopefully we'll know more at the Webinar.

Agreed, the silence is deafening. I had thought maybe they were saving everything up for one big publishing blitz but now I'm not so sure.

 

[Ron]

The Montoya webinar is no longer listed on the Solve ME/CFS page.
http://solvecfs.org/2016-webinar-series

 

[Who Me?]

Interesting. I asked them on their Facebook page and never heard back.