Where the science is leading next
Earlier this month, we marked ME/CFS Awareness Day with the community. Thank you for everything you do to help keep these diseases, and the people living with them, visible. Today, we want to share where the science is heading next, and why this moment matters. Watch the Video → After more than a decade of […]
Momentum into Outcomes: our 2025 Annual Report
As we close another year of progress toward effective treatments for ME/CFS and Long COVID, we want to share with you what your support has made possible Click the image to read the interactive e-zine. Thanks to the strength of the global OMF network and the leadership of Dr Chris Armstrong at the Melbourne ME/CFS […]
Today, we make ME/CFS visible
Show solidarity with the ME/CFS community on Awareness Day. Today, we make ME/CFS visible. On International ME/CFS Awareness Day, we honour the millions of people around the world living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) — a serious, complex, and often invisible disease that continues to steal lives, families, careers, education, and futures. For many, […]
OMF’s Model: Collaborative Approach to Systems Research
For multi-system chronic complex diseases like ME/CFS and Long COVID, no single laboratory, dataset, or discipline can capture the whole picture alone. Through our Collaborative Approach to Systems Research model, Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) brings together multiple institutions and disciplines within a shared scientific framework. This approach enables coordinated hypothesis generation, standardised data collection, and […]
Melissa’s Story: Living with ME/CFS and the Urgent Need for Hope
During ME/CFS Awareness Month, we’re sharing stories of people whose lives have been profoundly disrupted by ME/CFS. Today, we share Melissa’s story. Before becoming unwell, Melissa lived a full and active life. She describes herself as driven, energetic, and a bit of a perfectionist—someone who worked hard and embraced life to the fullest. She was […]
A new chapter in ME/CFS treatment research begins today—and your voice is essential to making it count.
At Open Medicine Foundation Australia (OMFAU), helping people get better is at the heart of everything we do. It drives our research partnerships, our scientific standards, and our unwavering commitment to the millions of people living with ME/CFS, Long COVID, and related diseases. Today, we are pleased to share a significant step forward: the launch […]
Long COVID Awareness Day: The Fight Is Far From Over
Today is Long COVID Awareness Day — a moment to pause and acknowledge the reality facing hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Long COVID is not a disease fading into the past. For many, it is a daily struggle with no clear end and no approved treatment in sight. At Open Medicine Foundation Australia (OMFAU), […]
Nearly $1M Awarded to OMF’s Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration for Long COVID & ME/CFS Research
We are very pleased to share that Dr Christopher Armstrong and his team at Open Medicine Foundation’s (OMF’s) Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration have been awarded nearly $1 million ($999,977.50) through the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) Stream 1 grant, for the project Energy inefficiency in Long COVID and ME/CFS. Importantly, […]
The MELLOW study protocol is published
The study protocol for MELLOW has been published in npj Women’s Health. MELLOW, which stands for ME/CFS + Long COVID Longitudinal Omics and Women’s Health, is a Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration study of how hormonal rhythms relate to symptoms in both conditions. Hormone levels change across the day and across the menstrual cycle, and most research […]
Exploring a genetic basis for the metabolic perturbations in ME/CFS using UK Biobank
A large genetic study reveals disrupted links between genes and metabolism in ME/CFS, highlighting altered lipid and cortisol pathways that may explain the condition’s metabolic and biological diversity.