The Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease (WPI), well known to a study published by the retracted science in 09 that linked a mouse retrovirus to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), will continue to receive US government funding for one, 5-year grant of $ 1.5 million to study the disease .
WPI, based in Reno, Nevada, has lost the grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), because in September he shot Judy Mikovits, the principal investigator of the grant. WPI then filed a complaint against Mikovits for goods that have been hijacked, and it has also become the subject of a related criminal case which led to his arrest and brief incarceration. Mikovits maintained his innocence and both cases are still before the courts. Harvey Whittemore and his wife, Annette, who founded WPI, are defendants in a lawsuit filed against them by his former business partners who claim that the couple improperly used funds of a holding company he co-ownership for support their institute. They denied the charges.
members NIAID staff visited WPI 15 December and assessed the qualifications of the researcher Vincent Lombardi, a co-author of the paper retracted who still works at the institute. NIAID formally approved Lombardi as the new principal investigator yesterday, noting that he had the "technical know-how and experience directly applicable to studies of Goal 2 of the grant," which focuses on the genetic susceptibility to disease and dysregulation of the immune system. Objective 1 was to identify and confirm the new virus related to CFS.
the National Institutes of Health, the parent organization of NIAID in 2010 spent about 6 $ million on research for the CFS, an amount patient advocates argue is insufficient for a disease that affects about 1 million to 4 million Americans alone. relatively scarce subsidy completed the WPI initiative to study CFS began in September 09, the month before the controversial Science report was issued, and ends in August 2014.
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