WPI: An Introduction

The Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro Immune Disease exists to bring discovery, knowledge, and effective treatments to patients with illnesses that are caused by acquired dysregulation of both the immune system and the nervous system, often resulting in life long disease and disability.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• retrovirus
• XMRV
• Whittemore Peterson Institute
• WPI
• CFS
• ME
• ME/CFS
• chronic fatigue syndrome
• myalgic encephalomyelitis
• fibromyalgia
• neuro immune disease
• Annette Whittemore
• Whittemore
• Daniel Peterson
• Peterson
• Judy Mikovits
• Robert Fredericks
• Joseph Brewer
• Paul Cheney

[kukulari]

NOBEL PRIZE FOR ALL THESE PEOPLE.

[vconsuegra]

Foggygyrl got this right. What is needed now is a hard-hitting and clearly defined collective portrait of this patient population. It would be mind numbing to present the variety of this illness in a short video. When presenting patients, a little goes a long way - and is terribly effective. All the crap is drained out and the viewer is left with the distilled residue of catastrophe.

[slovokia]

Perhaps it is time to find a manager who has experience and skill managing a research institution. It is a waste of resources to do otherwise.

[moomoobindi]

Thank you so much for what you do. It gives us CFS sufferers hope.

[justinreilly1]

I can not thank WPI enough for the amazing things they do for ME/CFIDS patients and science!! Please contribute all you can, it may be the best investment you ever make!

[poggins77]

It means the world to us with CFS/ME to have hope. Thanks, WPI!

To see how much energy and human potential has been lost to these illnesses, go to fms-help.com/occupations. It lists what people were doing before they got sick and had to stop doing what they loved.

[cfscue1]

Nobel Prize for all of them :)

[fogggygyrl]

This is the one of the best videos on the WPI and ME I've ever seen. I love how you intersperse the shots of the WPI with real people who have been suffering for years and decades with ME. You are our shining hope in this lonely, devatating desert, WPI! Keep it coming on! And please make more videos like this and show people with ME who are bedridden , in wheelchairs and walking with canes. THANK YOU!

[MicheleMMarie]

THANK YOU WPI, WHITTEMORE FAMILY, & RESEARCHERS!!

Thank you for your your insight, confidence, and maturity to be willing to share your research and work with others. After years of suffering with ME/CFS you have given me reason to believe that the answers to treatment WILL finally be found!

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) President of American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1975 said it best: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world."

[WildaisyFLA]

This is such a great video--and it is about my heroes! I have been suffering from ME/CFS for 23 years, and WPI is the first real hope. I am so grateful.

Patricia Carter

[bludgers2]

Praise God for everyone involved. Thank you so much. My hope has returned. Became sick 1989 at age 15 yrs. It has been a long 21 years. -3