Donald Staines

Professor Donald Staines is co-director (alongside Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik) of the National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases (NCNED) at Griffith University in Queensland in north-eastern Australia.

He is one of the authors of the 2011 case definition, International Consensus Criteria.

Notable studies

 * 2016, Novel characterisation of mast cell phenotypes from peripheral blood mononuclear cells in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis patients
 * 2016, Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptor Genotype and Haplotype Investigation of Natural Killer Cells from an Australian Population of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Patients

Diagnostic test
In February 2016 Dr Staines' team announced it had created a diagnostic test for the disease.

Talks & interviews

 * 2016, Speaker at the 11th Invest in ME International ME Conference on "Update from NCNED: Receptor identification and intracellular signalling" DVD available
 * 2015, Who Are You? Professor Don Staines, ME/CFS research, Griffith University Gold Coast (31 August 2015)

Learn more

 * Donald Staines Griffith University - Donald Staines
 * 2016, Australian scientists make breakthrough in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome testing
 * 2014, Gold Coast’s Griffith University to lead way in the battle against chronic fatigue (Gold Coast Bulletin, July 30 2014)

Online presence

 * PubMed - Donald Staines