abstract:Judy Anne Mikovits was the research director of the Whittemore Peterson Institute (WPI), a chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) research organization and clinic in Reno, Nevada, USA. Mikovits led a research effort that reported in 2009 that a retrovirus known as xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) was associated with CFS and may have had a causal role, however the research came under fire, leading to an eventual retraction on December 22, 2011 by the journal Science.
"Nothing that has been published to date refutes our data, " Dr JudyMikovits, of the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease, said in a statement.