Since 1987, the CFIDS Association of America has provided over $3.4 million in grants to CFIDS researchers. The CFIDS Association’s Research Grants Program provides financial support to researchers in various medical disciplines studying CFIDS.

Funding for these grants is provided through contributions from members and donors. The CFIDS Association of America announced it will fund four new research projects in 2002, totaling over $276,000.

Study: Do Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Have Widespread Autonomic Dysfunction?

Investigator: Ronald Schondorf, Ph.D., MD; SMDB Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Budget: $58,594

Study: Dysregulation of the 2-5a Pathway in CFS Patients

Investigator: Sidney E. Grossberg, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin

Budget: $71,120

Study: Dose-Response Effects of Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Infusion on Mood, Cognition, Hormonal and Cytokine Rhythms, and Adipose Tissue Cytokine Production in Female Normal Volunteers.

Investigator: Dimitris Papanicolaou, MD, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.

Budget: $66,800

The Cheney Clinic will also be conducting a second trial of the growth hormone and bovine growth factors.

[This is one of the topics included in the packet of information transcribed from visits with Dr. Cheney, which is available for $4.00 from Carol Sieverling, 513 Janann St., Euless, TX, 76039. Make checks payable to the CFS/FM Support Group of DFW.]