Stephen Holgate
Professor Stephen Holgate is the Chair of the UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative and Medical Research Council Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology and Honorary Consultant Physician within Medicine at the University of Southampton, Southampton, England.[1]
Bio in Nature Reviews: "He received his medical degree from the University of London, UK, M.D. by thesis and D.Sc. from the University of Southampton. From 1978 to 1980 he spent a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, researching inflammatory mechanisms. His current research is directed towards the pathophysiology of asthma and allied disorders, with a special interest in understanding how environmental exposures such as allergens, virus infections and air pollutants interact with the airways in the induction and exacerbation of asthma."[2]
Having chaired the UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative since its inception in 2013, he has stated that he wants to develop a "dream team" of the best researchers working on the UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative. One the projects launched by the Collaborative is the Grand Challenge, called such because its goal is to study ten thousand patients.[3]
He believes that ME/CFS could have twelve to fifteen different ‘causal pathways’ and that may be the reason it has been so hard to decipher.[4]
Articles[edit | edit source]
- 2011, Chronic fatigue syndrome: understanding a complex illness.[5]
- 2013, A Dozen Different Diseases? Stephen Holgate Calls for Radical Change in ME/CFS Research
- 2013, Forward ME Minutes of the Meeting 2 Jul 2013 - Professor Stephen Holgate invited to speak.
- 2013, Patients with chronic fatigue use additional areas of brain when using memory
- 2013, Launch of inclusive UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative
Notable studies[edit | edit source]
- 2005, Gene expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with chronic fatigue syndrome[6] - (Full Text)
- 2008, Gene Expression Subtypes in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis[7] (Full Text)
- 2011, Chronic fatigue syndrome: understanding a complex illness[8] (Abstract)
Talks and interviews[edit | edit source]
- 2013, Prof Stephen Holgate, Chair of the UK CFS/M.E. Research Collaborative, gives the keynote speech at our 2013 AGM and research conference in London.
- 2014, Edinburgh M.E. Self-help Group (edmesh) Open Meeting May 2014 - Stephen Holgate Speaking
- 2015, UK CFS/M.E. Research Collaborative Science Conference Day 1
- 2016, UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative Conference, Welcome address
- 2018, UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative Conference, Welcome address
Learn more[edit | edit source]
- Sethphen Holgate's Faculty page at University of Southampton
- UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative
- Grand Challenge
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ http://www.southampton.ac.uk/medicine/about/staff/sth.page
- ↑ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/projects/cfs/publications/assets/2011/Holgatecomplexillness.pdf
- ↑ http://www.meaction.net/2016/04/28/professor-stephen-holgate-uk-has-dream-team-for-grand-challenge/
- ↑ http://phoenixrising.me/archives/18222
- ↑ Holgate ST, Komaroff AL, Mangan D, Wessely S. (2011) Chronic fatigue syndrome: understanding a complex illness. Nature Reviews: Neuroscience, 12(9):539-44. Retrieved from http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/projects/cfs/publications/assets/2011/Holgatecomplexillness.pdf on 18 Jul 2016
- ↑ Kaushik, N; Fear, D; Richards, S C M; McDermott, C R; Nuwaysir, E F; Kellam, P; Harrison, T J; Wilkinson, R J; Tyrrell, D A J; Holgate, S T; Kerr, J R (August 1, 2005). "Gene expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with chronic fatigue syndrome". Journal of Clinical Pathology. 58 (8): 826–832. doi:10.1136/jcp.2005.025718. ISSN 0021-9746. PMC 1770875. PMID 16049284.
- ↑ Kerr, Jonathan R; Petty, Robert; Burke, Beverley; Gough, John; Fear, David; Sinclair, Lindsey I; Mattey, Derek L; Richards, Selwyn C; Montgomery, Jane; Baldwin, Don A; Kellam, Paul; Harrison, Tim J; Griffin, George E; Main, Janice; Enlander, Derek; Nutt, David J; Holgate, Stephen T (April 15, 2008), "Gene Expression Subtypes in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis", The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 197 (8): 1171–1184, doi:10.1086/533453
- ↑ Holgate ST, Komaroff AL, Mangan D, Wessely S. (2011) Chronic fatigue syndrome: understanding a complex illness. Nature Reviews: Neuroscience, 12(9):539-44. doi: 10.1038/nrn3087. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21792218 on 18 Jul 2016