Ian Lipkin

Walter Ian Lipkin, or W. Ian Lipkin, MD, is a researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City, United States.

Talk and interviews

• Oct 20, 2017 - ME/CFS Alert Episode 95 - Interview with Dr. W. Ian Lipkin

• Oct 14, 2017 - Solve ME/CFS Initiative Discovery Forum 2017: Presentation of Dr. Ian Lipkin, Columbia University

• Oct 14, 2017 - Solve ME/CFS Initiative Discovery Forum 2017: An Interview with Dr. Ian Lipkin by Dr. Zaher Nahle

• Discover Interview: The World's Most Celebrated Virus Hunter, Ian Lipkin

Discover - Health & Medicine By Grant Delin

"When Ian Lipkin chose a career in infectious diseases, he envisioned hunting for pathogens in daring treks around the world. Though disappointed to learn that modern-day virus hunters work largely from the lab, he still wound up a pioneer."

• Forgotten Plague documentary by Ryan Prior

ME/CFS Research

• 2017, Fecal metagenomic profiles in subgroups of patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (Full Text)
• 2017, Immune network analysis of cerebrospinal fluid in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome with atypical and classical presentations (Full Text)
• 2016, Cytokine network analysis of cerebrospinal fluid in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (Abstract)
• 2015, Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is associated with pandemic influenza infection, but not with an adjuvanted pandemic influenza vaccine (Abstract)
• 2015, Distinct plasma immune signatures in ME/CFS are present early in the course of illness (Full Text)
• 2012, A Multicenter Blinded Analysis Indicates No Association between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and either Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus or Polytropic Murine Leukemia Virus (Full Text)

XMRV

The scientist who put the nail in XMRV's coffin

Nature By Ewen Callaway

"A study published today has found no evidence to support research linking the retroviruses XMRV2 and pMLV3 to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). The US$2.3-million study, funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), comes three years after a link between XMRV and CFS was first reported in Science."

Online presence

• The Microbe Discovery Project (crowdfunding project)
• Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Learn more

• Wikipedia - W. Ian Lipkin

• Ian Lipkin: Three to Five Years* to Solve Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)

Simmaron Research By Cort Johnson

"Ian Lipkin flew to Lake Tahoe this December to fund raise for work he’s doing with the Simmaron Research Foundation. In a talk covering his virus hunting career, the threat of pathogens to humanity, and his work with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), he dropped a bombshell: he stated that he believes it’s possible to solve ME/CFS in three to five years."

• Ian Lipkin Gets ME/CFS Grant – and So Do Others: the NIH Grants of 2015

Pro-Health By Cort Johnson

"Ian Lipkin gets a big grant and so did some others. (Could the IOM and P2P reports have prompted this little flurry of interest?)"

• Drs Lipkin, Mady Hornig and colleagues discover robust evidence that chronic fatigue syndrome is a biological illness

The Microbe Discovery Project

"Researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health identified distinct immune changes in patients diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, known medically as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) or Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease."

• 2015, Ian Lipkin, Mady Hornig - Chilli M.E. Challenge - YouTube

See also

• Mady Hornig
• Microbe Discovery Project

Reports that may have led to grants

• Institute of Medicine report - IOM
• Pathways to prevention report (P2P) - NIH

National Institutes of Health (NIH) - A set of biomedical research institutes operated by the U.S. government, under the auspices of the Department of Health and Human Services.

microbiome The full collection of microscopic organisms (especially bacteria and fungi) which are present in a particular environment, particularly inside the human body.

cytokine any class of immunoregulatory proteins secreted by cells, especially immune cells. Cytokines are small proteins important in cell signaling that modulate the immune system. (Learn more: me-pedia.org)

myalgic encephalomyelitis (M.E.) - A disease often marked by neurological symptoms, but fatigue is sometimes a symptom as well. Some diagnostic criteria distinguish it from chronic fatigue syndrome, while other diagnostic criteria consider it to be a synonym for chronic fatigue syndrome. A defining characteristic of ME is post-exertional malaise (PEM), or post-exertional neuroimmune exhaustion (PENE), which is a notable exacerbation of symptoms brought on by small exertions. PEM can last for days or weeks. Symptoms can include cognitive impairments, muscle pain (myalgia), trouble remaining upright (orthostatic intolerance), sleep abnormalities, and gastro-intestinal impairments, among others. An estimated 25% of those suffering from ME are housebound or bedbound. The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies ME as a neurological disease.