Jonas Bergquist

Jonas Bergquist, MD, PhD., Associate Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden. In 1999, he became a Researcher in Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. In 2005, he was appointed the Chaired Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Neurochemistry, heading the Bergquist group at the Department of Chemistry, Biomedical Centre, Uppsala University. Since 2011, he is an Adjunct Professor of Pathology at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA, and since 2015, a Professor of Precision Medicine, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, China.

Research interests: various neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and multiple sclerosis (MS); his research "involves methods to measure substances that can act as biomarkers for early diagnosis and contribute to the understanding of what initiates the disease process... [and] measure not only the individual substances but also seek patterns and monitor how they change during illness,... [the Bergquist group's] specialty is the analysis of cerebrospinal fluid and its chemical composition."

ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center at Stanford University
Dr. Bergquist is a member of the Working Group which offers their expertise and resources to the ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center at Stanford University.

EUROMENE
Dr. Bergquist is a member of the Biomarkers Working Group of ME/CFS across Europe on behalf of the EUROMENE, a European Union COST Action CA15111 not-for-profit research organization committed to tackling the cause and treatment for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

ME/CFS Common Data Element (CDE) Project
Member of the Neurologic/Cognitive/CNS Imaging Working Group of the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Common Data Element (CDE) Project sponsored by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

2017 Ramsay Award
A team comprised of Dr. Bergquist and Dr. Jonas Blomberg of Uppsala University and Dr. Carl-Gerhard Gottfries and Dr. Olof Zachrisson of the Gottfries Clinic were awarded a 2017 Ramsay Award grant from the Solve ME/CFS Initiative for research into biomarkers for initiation (infection) and metabolic derangement in ME/CFS.

Talks and interviews

 * 12 Aug 2017, Community Symposium on the Molecular Basis of ME/CFS - 2017: Speech title - In search of biomarkers revealing pathophysiology in a Swedish ME/CFS patient cohort
 * 2015, Speaker at the 10th Invest in ME International ME Conference - (no speech title given) DVD available

Research studies on ME/CFS

 * 2011, Distinct Cerebrospinal Fluid Proteomes Differentiate Post-Treatment Lyme Disease from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Full Text)