Vall d’Hebron will host on May 14 the "http://www.vhir.org/DDGRecerca%5CDOCENCIAACTIVITATS%5C2014%5C2014_0133%5C2014_0133_001.pdf" XII Meeting on Advances in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), in which Spanish leading experts will discuss the latest advances in this disease that causes both physical and intellectual limitations.Dr. José Alegre, head of the Chronic Fatigue group at Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR), is the coordinator of this meeting that will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the diagnostic criteria established in Atlanta in 1994. From Vall d’Hebron will also participate Dr. Francisco Guarner, researcher of the Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Digestive Tract group, Dr. Jesús Castro, researcher of the Chronic Fatigue group, and Dr. Jordi Petriz, researcher of the Research Unit in Biomedicine and Translational Oncology group. On May 15, VHIR has organized a seminar that will be led by "http://www.vhir.org/activitats/relacioactivitats_detall.asp?Idioma=ca&any=2014&num=40&mv1=4&mv2=1&titol=How+big+is+the+problem+of+paed" Dr. Esther Crawley, researcher of Bristol University (UK), who will talk about CFS in childhood and youth. The seminar will also foster collaboration among both institutions. Dr. Alegre’s group has also collaborative research projects with the European-Wide EUROMENE network for CFS, the FINTA European Consortium – Fibromyalgia, the FF Foundation, the Center for Genomic Regulation, the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, the Universidad de Sevilla, and the Irsi-Caixa Institute. Furthermore, in the last Biennial International Conference IACFS/ME, hosted on March in San Francisco (USA), Dr. Alegre was appointed lifelong member of the American Association in CFS. Beside these activities, the Chronic Fatigue group has also organized two events for fundraising: the "http://www.vhir.org/DDGRecerca%5CDOCENCIAACTIVITATS%5C2014%5C2014_0133%5C2014_0133_004.pdf" humor night on May 15th at Vall d’Hebron’s Pavelló Docent and the humor night on June 6th at the Can Rigoler theatre in Parets del Vallès. All the donations collected will fund the research of this group that has achieved more than 40 donors through the VHIR’s fundraising site "http://www.yoinvestigo.org/" Yo Investigo.