Dr. Christopher Armstrong

Dr Christopher Armstrong holds a PhD in biochemistry and is a Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology at the University of Melbourne. In his PhD project he published his first ME/CFS metabolomics study on blood and urine in 2015. He was also a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University under Ronald W. Davis. Since 2020, he is the director of the Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration, one of the international Collaborative Research Centers under the Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) programme on ME/CFS and related conditions. The Collaboration aims to decipher the common biological pathways in ME/CFS, acknowledging patient diversity in disease manifestation. Initially focusing on metabolic studies, the Collaboration now champions precision medicine to understand each patient’s unique biology. In his work, Dr Armstrong applies metabolomics to immunological experiments on ME/CFS, observing how metabolism may relate to immune cell function. He has also focused on longitudinal research in ME/CFS while looking to extend metabolic capabilities across the field of ME/CFS to help collate different patient groups.