ME/CFS Symposium 2025 – Forschung in Deutschland

Public symposium on ME/CFS research and health care studies in Germany. This half-day hybrid event is aimed at people living with ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) and the general public and will present currently ongoing research projects.

Presentations at the symposium will be broadcast via online livestream from the Harnack House of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. Online participation in the symposium requires a registration and is free of charge. All presentations will be held in German.

The event takes place under the stewardship of Prof Carmen Scheibenbogen, director of the Division of Immunodeficiencies and Post-infectious Diseases and the Charité Fatigue Center (CFC) at Charité - University Medicine Berlin and Prof Uta Behrends, head of the MRI Chronic Fatigue Center (MCFC) for young people at the Technical University of Munich Hospital and the Munich Schwabing Clinic.

The symposium aims to present currently ongoing and recently initiated ME/CFS research projects to the general public. The focus of the event lies on the presentation of research projects funded by the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) that deal with the areas of health care, treatment, basic and clinical research. Some of the research projects also cover Long COVID and post-COVID syndrome.

Videos of presentations will be made available on our website after the event.

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