Ronald Davis

Ronald Davis is Professor of Biochemistry & Genetics, and Director of the Stanford Genome Technology Center at Stanford University. His son, Whitney Dafoe, is severely ill with ME/CFS. Professor Davis leads the End ME/CFS Project with the Open Medicine Foundation whose first project is the ME/CFS Severely Ill, Big Data Study.

ME/CFS Research
In March 2016, it was announced that the ME/CFS Severely Ill, Big Data Study had a significant result in the area of mitochondria. This resulted in the addition of Robert Naviaux (a mitochondrial expert) to the research team.

Online presence

 * PubMed

Advocacy efforts
Dr. Ron Davis and Dr. Janet Dafoe both protested with #MillionsMissing at the San Francisco satellite protest on May 25, 2016. Dr. Davis gave a speech about the challenges ME patients face, and his hopes for the future of ME research.

Learn more

 * Wikipedia - Ronald Davis
 * 2016, Tackling chronic fatigue syndrome (January 5)