Jonas Blomberg
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Jonas Blomberg, MD, PhD, (1944-2019) was an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Medical Sciences, Clinical Microbiology, Uppsala University, Sweden.[1] He was on the Advisory Board of the Gottfries Clinic, one of the couple of clinics in Sweden offering adequate biomedical treatment for Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS.[2]
Blomberg passed away suddenly in February 2019.
Education[edit | edit source]
- 1974 - MD, Göteborg University
- 1977 - PhD in Medical Biochemistry, Göteborg University
- 1979-1981 - Postdoctoral work on Retroviruses, National Cancer Institute, US
Fields of Research[edit | edit source]
- 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).
2017 Ramsay Award[edit | edit source]
A team comprised of Dr. Blomberg and Dr. Jonas Bergquist of Uppsala University and Dr. Carl-Gerhard Gottfries and Dr. Olof Zachrisson of the Gottfries Clinic were awarded a 2017 Ramsay Award grant from the Solve ME/CFS Initiative for research into biomarkers for initiation (infection) and metabolic derangement in ME/CFS.[3]
Committees and working groups[edit | edit source]
ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center at Stanford University[edit | edit source]
Member of the Working Group which offers their expertise and resources to the ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center at Stanford University.[4]
EUROMENE[edit | edit source]
Member of the Biomarkers Working Group of ME/CFS across Europe on behalf of the EUROMENE, a European Union COST Action CA15111 not-for-profit research organization committed to tackling the cause and treatment for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.[5]
Research on ME/CFS[edit | edit source]
- 2011, Murine gammaretrovirus group G3 was not found in Swedish patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia[6] - (Full Text)
- 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[7] - (Full Text)
- 2012, No evidence for xenotropic murine leukemia-related virus infection in Sweden using internally controlled multiepitope suspension array serology[8] - (Full Text)
- 2013, Epitopes of Microbial and Human Heat Shock Protein 60 and Their Recognition in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis[9] - (Full Text)
- 2018, Infection Elicited Autoimmunity and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: An Explanatory Model[10] - (Full Text)
- 2019, Antibodies to Human Herpesviruses in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients[11] - (Abstract)
Talks and interviews[edit | edit source]
- 2013, Jonas Blomberg om sökande efter mikrobiella biomarkörer vid ME/CFS
- 2014, 9th Invest in ME International ME Conference 2014 (no speech title given, but he discussed infection-induced autoimmunity in ME)DVD on conference
Online presence[edit | edit source]
See also[edit | edit source]
Learn more[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "Jonas Blomberg - Uppsala University, Sweden". katalog.uu.se. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
- ↑ "Gottfries Clinic | Gottfriesmottagningen". gottfriesclinic.se. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
- ↑ "2017 Ramsay Award Program Results". Solve ME/CFS Initiative. Retrieved July 16, 2019.
- ↑ "OMF grants $1.2M to Ramp Up Collaborative Research Center at Stanford University". bos.etapestry.com. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
- ↑ "Action CA15111". COST. Retrieved July 16, 2019.
- ↑ Elfaitouri, A; Shao, X; Mattsson Ulfstedt, J; Muradrasoli, S; Bölin Wiener, A; Golbob, S; Ohrmalm, C; Matousek, M; Zachrisson, O; Gottfries, C-G; Blomberg, J (2011), "Murine gammaretrovirus group G3 was not found in Swedish patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.", PLoS One, 6 (10): e24602, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024602
- ↑ Blomberg, Jonas; Sheikholvaezin, Ali; Elfaitouri, Amal; Blomberg, Fredrik; Sjösten, Anna; Mattson Ulfstedt, Johan; Pipkorn, Rüdiger; Källander, Clas; Öhrmalm, Christina (2001). "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". Advances in Virology: 1–20. doi:10.1155/2011/341294. ISSN 1687-8639. PMC 3265301. PMID 22315600.
- ↑ Blomberg, Jonas; Blomberg, Fredrik; Sjösten, Anna; Sheikholvaezin, Ali; Bölin-Wiener, Agnes; Elfaitouri, Amal; Hessel, Sanna; Gottfries, Carl-Gerhard; Zachrisson, Olof; Öhrmalma, Christina; Jobs, Magnus; Pipkorn, Rüdiger (2012), "No Evidence for Xenotropic Murine Leukemia-Related Virus Infection in Sweden Using Internally Controlled Multiepitope Suspension Array Serology", Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, 19 (9): 1399-1410, doi:10.1128/CVI.00391-12
- ↑ Elfaitouri, A; Herrmann, B; Bölin-Wiener, A; Wang, Y; Gottfries, C-G; Zachrisson, O; Pipkorn, R; Rönnblom, L; Blomberg, J (2013), "Epitopes of Microbial and Human Heat Shock Protein 60 and Their Recognition in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis", PLoS One, 8 (11): e81155, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0081155
- ↑ Blomberg, Jonas; Gottfries, Carl-Gerhard; Elfaitouri, Amal; Rizwan, Muhammad; Rosén, Anders (2018), "Infection Elicited Autoimmunity and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: An Explanatory Model", Frontiers in Immunology, 2018 (9): 229, doi:10.3389/fimmu.2018.00229
- ↑ Blomberg, Jonas; Rizwan, Muhammad; Böhlin-Wiener, Agnes; Elfaitouri, Amal; Julin, Per; Zachrisson, Olof; Rosén, Anders; Gottfries, Carl-Gerhard (2019). "Antibodies to Human Herpesviruses in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients". Frontiers in Immunology. 10: 1946. doi:10.3389/fimmu.2019.01946.
