Current Research Projects

Immunologic Mechanisms and Biomarkers in Gulf War Illness.
Veterans Administration Merit Review (PI NG Klimas) 11/05 – 11/08
Longitudinal study of GWI and CFS patients

Gene Array Analysis of Gulf War Illness and Chronic Fatigue
Veterans Administration Merit Review  (PI NG Klimas) 9/05 -2/08
This study, done in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control is designed to determine how patients with GWI and CFS may differ from healthy controls

Immunologic Mechanisms, Biomarkers and Subsets in CFS
NIAID (PI MA Fletcher) R01AI065723 12/1/06 – 11/30/11
Goal of this project is to determine the immunologic basis for CFS pathogenesis

Neuropeptide Y and dipeptidyl-peptidase IV (CD26) in chronic fatigue syndrome
NIAAA (PI MA Fletcher) R21AA016635  9/30/06-8/31/08
Goal of this project to determine the relationship of neuropeptide Y and dipeptidyl-peptidase IV to natural killer cell cytotoxicity in CFS.

Mechanisms of Cytotoxic Cell Dysfunction in CFS
Chronic Fatigue and Immunodeficiency Syndrome Association (PI N Klimas) 03/07 – 03/08
Study of killer cells in CFS

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