Ian Lipkin

Walter Ian Lipkin, or W. Ian Lipkin, MD, is the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and Professor of Neurology and Pathology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Lipkin is also Director of the Center for Infection and Immunity, an academic laboratory for microbe hunting in acute and chronic diseases. Dr. Lipkin traveled to China in 2003 to investigate the SARS outbreak of 2003, and to Saudi Arabia during the MERS outbreak, both coronaviruses. He traveled again to China in 2020 during the COVID-19 outbreak and contracted the disease himself.

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

Notable studies

 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 2016, Cytokine network analysis of cerebrospinal fluid in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome - (Abstract)
 * 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)
 * 2018, Insights into myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome phenotypes through comprehensive metabolomics - (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."

Chilli ME Challenge

 * Jul 1, 2015, Ian Lipkin and Mady Hornig accept Chilli ME Challenge

Open letters

 * Oct 18, 2018, In response to the Fourth Annual Conference on Psychosomatics at Columbia University - ME/CFS is not a psychosomatic illness

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

Reports that may have led to grants

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