Question follow-through · 99255
Long Covid and ME/CFS: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to support collaboration between Government-funded bodies and private-sector researchers following the identification on 4 December 2025 of multiple biological
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to support collaboration between Government-funded bodies and private-sector researchers following the identification on 4 December 2025 of multiple biological
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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17 Dec 2025
Answer published
The LOCOME study, led by Precision life, was funded by Innovate UK through the Advancing Precision Medicine programme. Reporting more than 250 core genes associated with ME, including 76 shared with long COVID, and dozens of drug repurposing opportunities...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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