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.

He was one of the experts on the "Committee on the Diagnostic Criteria for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" that was convened for the 2015 Institute of Medicine report.

Open Letter to The Lancet
Two open letters to the editor of The Lancet urged the editor to commission a fully independent review of the PACE trial, which the journal had published in 2011. The first, written in 2015, was sign by Dr. Davis and 5 of his colleagues. In 2016, thirty-six additional colleagues in the ME/CFS field, signed the second letter.
 * 13 November 2015, An open letter to Dr. Richard Horton and The Lancet
 * 10 February 2016, An open letter to The Lancet, again - Virology blog

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.

Talks and Interviews

 * 3 Feb 2017, "Scientist Ron Davis Tells How We Are "Fast-Tracking" ME/CFS Research"
 * 21 May 2016, "Short Story of a Family's Struggle with ME/CFS"

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. To see video of Dr. Davis's interview at the San Francisco #MillionsMissing click HERE.

Learn more

 * Wikipedia - Ronald Davis
 * 2016, Happy 75th Birthday to Scientist Ronald W. Davis, PhD
 * 2016, Tackling chronic fatigue syndrome (January 5)
 * 2016, "The puzzle solver: A researcher changes course to help his son" by Tracie White, Stanford Medicine