Jonas Blomberg

Jonas Blomberg, MD, PhD, (born 1944) is an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Medical Sciences, Clinical Microbiology, Uppsala University, Sweden. He is on the Advisory Board of the Gottfries Clinic, the only clinic or health-care unit in Sweden that is capable to offer an adequate treatment for Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS.

Education

 * 1974 - MD, Göteborg University
 * 1977 - PhD in Medical Biochemistry, Göteborg University
 * 1979-1981 - Postdoctoral work on Retroviruses, National Cancer Institute, USA

Fields of Research

 * Retroviruses: HIV, HTLV, XMRV and HERVs.
 * Bioinformatics: Improving diagnostic methods for clinical microbiology, enhancing phylogenetic studies.
 * Method development: Nucleic acid and Antibody based methods for detection of infection.
 * Clinical Virology: Quality control, management of routine, search for infectious triggers of Myalgic encephalomyelitis (chronic fatigue syndrome).

Research on ME/CFS

 * 2013, Epitopes of microbial and human heat shock protein 60 and their recognition in myalgic encephalomyelitis.


 * 2011, Phylogeny-directed search for murine leukemia virus-like retroviruses in vertebrate genomes and in patients suffering from myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer.


 * 2011, Murine gammaretrovirus group G3 was not found in Swedish patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.

Talks and Interviews

 * 2014, 9th Invest in ME International ME Conference 2014 (no speech title given, but he discussed infection-induced autoimmunity in ME)
 * 2013, Jonas Blomberg om sökande efter mikrobiella biomarkörer vid ME/CFS

Online Presence

 * Wiki page (in Swedish)
 * Uppsala University faculty page
 * Twitter