Maureen Hanson

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Maureen R. Hanson, PhD., is the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US, and Director of the Cornell Center for Enervating NeuroImmune Disease.[1] In April 2021, Hanson was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[1][2]

In addition to her research on genome-containing organelles of plants, chloroplasts and mitochondria, she is exploring the pathophysiology of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Research goals include examining the gut and blood microbiome in healthy vs. ill subjects and identifying differences in gene expression before and after exercise in subjects diagnosed with CFS/ME compared to healthy subjects.[3]

Dr. Hanson, together with a team of researchers and clinicians at Ithaca College collaborated to create a new ME/CFS research center called the Center for Enervating NeuroImmune Disease (CENID) of which she is the director.[4] Dr Hanson is also a member of the Working Group which offers their expertise and resources to the ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center at Stanford University.[5]

Dr. Hanson's strong desire to research and advocate for ME/CFS is motivated by her having a family member with chronic fatigue syndrome.[6]

Education[edit | edit source]

  • B.S. degree at Duke University
  • Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from Harvard University
  • NIH postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard

Cornell ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center[edit | edit source]

In 2017, Maureen Hanson, Ph.D. was named the Principal Investigator of the Cornell ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center, a collaborative research center partly funded by an NIH grant.[7]

Committees and boards[edit | edit source]

IOM Committee on Diagnostic Criteria for ME/CFS[edit | edit source]

Dr Hanson was a reviewer for the 2015 report produced by the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Diagnostic Criteria for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.[8]

ME/CFS Common Data Element (CDE) Project[edit | edit source]

Member of the Biomarkers Working Group of the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Common Data Element (CDE) Project sponsored by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[9]

Notable studies[edit | edit source]

  • 2023, The viral origin of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome[10](full text)
  • 2022, The Enterovirus Theory of Disease Etiology in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Critical Review[11] - (Full text)
  • 2021, In-Depth Analysis of the Plasma Proteome in ME/CFS Exposes Disrupted Ephrin-Eph and Immune System Signaling[12] - (Full text)
  • 2020, Comprehensive Circulatory Metabolomics in ME/CFS Reveals Disrupted Metabolism of Acyl Lipids and Steroids[13] - (Full text)
  • 2020, Letter to the Editor of Metabolites[14] - (Full letter)
  • 2020, Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome patients exhibit altered T cell metabolism and cytokine associations[15] - (Full text)
  • 2020, Cytokine profiling of extracellular vesicles isolated from plasma in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: A pilot study[16] - (Full text)
  • 2018, Eukaryotes in the gut microbiota in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome[17] - (Abstract)
  • 2018, Prospective Biomarkers from Plasma Metabolomics of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Implicate Redox Imbalance in Disease Symptomatology[18] - (Full Text)
  • 2017, Metabolic profiling of a myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome discovery cohort reveals disturbances in fatty acid and lipid metabolism[19] - (Full text)
  • 2016, A Pair of Identical Twins Discordant for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Differ in Physiological Parameters and Gut Microbiome Composition[20] - (Full text)
  • 2016, Reduced diversity and altered composition of the gut microbiome in individuals with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome[21] - (Full Text)
  • 2016, Mitochondrial DNA variants correlate with symptoms in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome[22] - (Full Text)
  • 2016, Association of mitochondrial DNA variants with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) symptoms[23] - (Full Text)

Talks and interviews[edit | edit source]

Articles[edit | edit source]

Online presence[edit | edit source]

See also[edit | edit source]

Learn more[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Agrawal, Hanson elected to National Academy of Sciences". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
  2. "2021 NAS Election". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
  3. "Maureen Hanson | Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics". Cornell University. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  4. Webinar with Dr. Maureen Hanson, retrieved August 26, 2019
  5. "OMF grants $1.2M to Ramp Up Collaborative Research Center at Stanford University". bos.etapestry.com. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  6. "Hanson's Metabolomics ME/CFS Study Validates Naviaux's Core Finding". Health Rising's Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Fibromyalgia Forums. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
  7. "NIH announces centers for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome research". National Institutes of Health. January 2, 2019.
  8. Committee on Diagnostic Criteria for ME/CFS (February 10, 2015). "Beyond Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Redefining an Illness" (PDF). National Academies.
  9. "Complete Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CDE Roster". NIH. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  10. Hanson, Maureen R. (August 17, 2023). "The viral origin of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome". PLOS Pathogens. 19 (8): e1011523. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1011523. ISSN 1553-7366. PMC 10434940. PMID 37590180.
  11. O'Neal, Adam J.; Hanson, Maureen R. (2021). "The Enterovirus Theory of Disease Etiology in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Critical Review". Frontiers in Medicine. 8: 688486. doi:10.3389/fmed.2021.688486/abstract. ISSN 2296-858X.
  12. Germain, Arnaud; Levine, Susan M.; Hanson, Maureen R. (March 2021). "In-Depth Analysis of the Plasma Proteome in ME/CFS Exposes Disrupted Ephrin-Eph and Immune System Signaling". Proteomes. 9 (1): 6. doi:10.3390/proteomes9010006. ISSN 2227-7382. PMC 7931008.
  13. Germain, Arnaud; Barupal, Dinesh K.; Levine, Susan M.; Hanson, Maureen R. (January 14, 2020). "Comprehensive Circulatory Metabolomics in ME/CFS Reveals Disrupted Metabolism of Acyl Lipids and Steroids". Metabolites. 10 (1): 34. doi:10.3390/metabo10010034. ISSN 2218-1989.
  14. Hanson, Maureen R.; Germain, Arnaud (May 25, 2020). "Letter to the Editor of Metabolites". Metabolites. 10 (5): 216. doi:10.3390/metabo10050216. ISSN 2218-1989.
  15. Mandarano, Alexandra H.; Maya, Jessica; Giloteaux, Ludovic; Peterson, Daniel L.; Maynard, Marco; Gottschalk, C. Gunnar; Hanson, Maureen R. (February 10, 2020). "Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome patients exhibit altered T cell metabolism and cytokine associations". Journal of Clinical Investigation. 130 (3): 1491–1505. doi:10.1172/jci132185.
  16. Giloteaux, Ludovic; O'Neal, Adam; Castro-Marrero, Jesús; Levine, Susan M.; Hanson, Maureen R. (December 2020). "Cytokine profiling of extracellular vesicles isolated from plasma in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: a pilot study". Journal of Translational Medicine. 18 (1): 387. doi:10.1186/s12967-020-02560-0. ISSN 1479-5876. PMC 7552484.
  17. Mandarano, AH; Giloteaux, L; Keller, BA; Levine, SM; Hanson, MR (2018). "Eukaryotes in the gut microbiota in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome". PeerJ. 6: e4282. doi:10.7717/peerj.4282.
  18. Germain, Arnaud; Ruppert, David; Levine, Susan M.; Hanson, Maureen R. (December 2018). "Prospective Biomarkers from Plasma Metabolomics of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Implicate Redox Imbalance in Disease Symptomatology". Metabolites. 8 (4): 90. doi:10.3390/metabo8040090.
  19. Germain, Arnaud; Ruppert, David; Levine, Susan M.; Hanson, Maureen R. (2017). "Metabolic profiling of a myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome discovery cohort reveals disturbances in fatty acid and lipid metabolism". Molecular BioSystems. 13: 371-379. doi:10.1039/C6MB00600K. PMC 5365380. PMID 28059425.
  20. Giloteaux, Ludovic; Hanson, Maureen R.; Keller, Betsy (2016). "A Pair of Identical Twins Discordant for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Differ in Physiological Parameters and Gut Microbiome Composition". American Journal of Case Reports. 17: 720–729. doi:10.12659/AJCR.900314.
  21. Giloteaux, L.; Goodrich, J.K.; Walters, W.A.; Levine, S.M.; Ley, R.; Hanson, M.R. (2016). "Reduced diversity and altered composition of the gut microbiome in individuals with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome". Microbiome. 4 (1): 30. doi:10.1186/s40168-016-0171-4. PMID 27338587.
  22. Billing-Ross, Paul; Germain, Arnaud; Ye, Kaixiong; Keinan, Alon; Gu, Zhenglong; Hanson, Maureen R. (December 2016). "Mitochondrial DNA variants correlate with symptoms in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome". Journal of Translational Medicine. 14: 19. doi:10.1186/s12967-016-0771-6. ISSN 1479-5876. PMC 4719218. PMID 26791940.
  23. Hanson, Maureen R.; Gu, Zhenglong; Keinan, Alon; Ye, Kaixiong; Germain, Arnaud; Billing-Ross, Paul (December 20, 2016). "Association of mitochondrial DNA variants with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) symptoms". Journal of Translational Medicine. 14 (1): 342. doi:10.1186/s12967-016-1104-5. ISSN 1479-5876. PMC 5175376. PMID 27998272.
  24. Alter, Harvey J.; Mikovits, Judy A.; Switzer, William M.; Ruscetti, Francis W.; Lo, Shyh-Ching; Klimas, Nancy; Komaroff, Anthony L.; Montoya, Jose G.; Bateman, Lucinda; Levine, Susan; Peterson, Daniel; Levin, Bruce; Hanson, Maureen R.; Genfi, Afia; Bhat, Meera; Zheng, HaoQiang; Wang, Richard; Li, Bingjie; Hung, Guo-Chiuan; Lee, Li Ling; Sameroff, Stephen; Heneine, Walid; Coffin, John; Hornig, Mady; Lipkin, W. Ian (2012). "A Multicenter Blinded Analysis Indicates No Association between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and either Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus or Polytropic Murine Leukemia Virus". mBio. 3 (5): e00266–12. doi:10.1128/mBio.00266-12.
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