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This year’s federal advocacy meetings which are usually held at the US Capitol were cancelled due to the pandemic.  Advocacy activity was promoted online and WPI signed on in support of federal legislation, H.R. 7057, which seeks to authorize $60 million over the next four years, to expand NIH research into ME/CFS and post viral [...]

This Giving Tuesday is the perfect time to join with the Whittemore Peterson Institute, WPI, in support of our life changing work.  We need your help to create and disseminate informative educational materials, for doctors and their patients, on behalf of those with ME/CFS and other post infectious diseases. The lack of helpful information leaves [...]

We want to thank all of you who joined WPI and Workwell Foundation for our most recent webinar on Energy Management in Chronic Illness. Your responses, while encouraging, also expressed a need for more information. Therefore, we will be hosting a second webinar on energy management on October 5, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. using patient’s [...]

WPI is excited to host Staci Stevens, MA Physiology, Founder and Director of the Workwell Foundation.  Staci is an expert in managing post exertional malaise or PEM, a hallmark symptom of ME/CFS.  Staci knows from her own personal journey that a key to managing life with ME/CFS includes learning how to conserve the limited energy [...]

Dear Friends, During this time of worldwide crisis, it is important that you know the WPI remains steadfast in our mission to find answers, provide support to those who are ill, and to educate the world about the devastating impact of neuro-immune diseases. As responsible and concerned citizens, we must also protect one another from [...]

Happy New Year, Thank you for your support of the institute and its mission to conquer neuroimmune disease. While we continue our search for cures, we remain dedicated to caring for the neuroimmune community, through medical care, education, advocacy and outreach. Because of your generosity, WPI continued to support a medical clinic for neuroimmune diseases in [...]

The Gift of Health is a patient centered grant created to help offset the cost of the initial visit with Dr. Kenny De Meirleir in his medical practice at the WPI Clinic. This medical grant will support patient access to expert medical care in addition to aiding the search for more effective treatments. The Gift of [...]

The Whittemore Peterson Institute held an open house on March 6th for approximately 45 invited guests. In addition to allowing the Institute to thank its generous donors in person, the occasion served as a unique educational opportunity to highlight its medical research efforts. During the educational portion of the evening, President and CEO Annette Whittemore [...]

Whittemore Peterson Institute (WPI) representatives joined with hundreds of ME/CFS community members including patients, many of whom risked their health to raise awareness of the critical need for greater levels of research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Currently, ME/CFS funding amounts to only $6.50 per person per year, despite the fact that [...]