Rob Wüst
@RobWust
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Assistant-Professor Muscle Metabolism at Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands. Interested in skeletal muscle function in health and disease
Weesp, Nederland
Joined March 2013
🧵 THREAD: Skeletal Muscle Alterations in Long COVID and ME/CFS.1/ 💡 Study Overview.We studied whether skeletal muscle changes in Long COVID and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) patients are due to inactivity or distinct pathological processes.
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RT @RichieGoulding1: Pleased to announce that together with my colleagues Melissa Hooijmans & @RobWust, we have been awarded €500,000 fundi….
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RT @BlueSpotScience: 🧑🔬 NEW PhD scholarship available in my lab to investigate: . "Mitochondrial Adaptations to Exercise" 🚴.🗓️ Appli….
vu.edu.au
Information about graduate research scholarships for international applicants.
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Excited to announce that our team received a @ZonMw grant to study mast cells in Post-Exertional Malaise in Long COVID & ME/CFS. We focus on the interaction between immune cells & muscle @VU_FGB @AMSmovement @TeamDerave.
amsterdamumc.org
Dr. Rob Wüst (VU Amsterdam) and collaboration partners have been awarded a ZonMW grant of €370.000 in the Post-COVID round for the project 'Understanding immune cell infiltration and mast cell...
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It was a real pleasure working with you again Emma! Super excited about this!.
🎨 ⛈️ New cover alert from the studio! ☁️ ⚡ . Post-exertional malaise is a hallmark of long COVID, where even light physical or mental effort can trigger brain fog, fatigue, and muscle pain. In this month’s issue of @Trends_Endo_Met , @RobWust and colleagues explore the
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We are excited that the front cover of the prestigious journal Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism (@Trends_Endo_Met) relates to our review on post-exertional malaise in patients with #LongCovid. Thanks to our patient reps and @DrawImpacts for this!.
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RT @DrDominicNg: New study @NatureGenet identifies first genetic risk factor for long COVID. They compared DNA from 16,000 patients vs 1.9….
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RT @simongerman600: Now that European summer is heating up, let me quickly remind you just how important street trees are! .
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RT @PutrinoLab: Wanted to put forward a thread about #PEM since there have been some new developments and also because I just need to get s….
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RT @LongCovidNL: 📰 Leestip: Spierveranderingen bij long covid en ME komen niet door inactiviteit. Goed artikel in @trouw gisteren, over het….
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Spieren van patiënten met #LongCovid en #MEcvs zijn anders, maar dat komt niet door een inactieve leefstijl.
trouw.nl
Dat mensen met long covid en ME/CVS na inspanning vaak vermoeid zijn, komt niet doordat ze minder vaak bewegen. Dat tonen Nederlandse onderzoekers aan.
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Super excited about this newest study of @RichieGoulding1 from our department who worked on this for 5 years. There's more coming (soon)! Congrats to the whole team! @MYOTWlTTER @DiabetologiaJnl.
Extremely excited to share the latest work from my postdoc in Amsterdam, just published in @DiabetologiaJnl ! Skeletal muscle mitochondrial health in type 1 diabetes: the role of exercise capacity and lifestyle factors. A thread 🧵 .
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RT @DrDenDunnen: I’m really impressed by the high level of research that was presented at the International ME/CFS Conference 2025 #mecfsco….
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Dare to ask: does anyone know if there is an EndoPAT machine/lab in the Netherlands that is currently in use? Thanks!.
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Great time and lots of new ideas (patient-initiated!) at the @MEforeningen conference on Long Covid and ME/CFS in Stavanger, Norway. Super nice to meet @PutrinoLab @kjtronstad @C_Scheibenbogen and many others again. Norway is beautiful!
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RT @PutrinoLab: Again for those in the back:.👏🏼 PEM 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 NOT 👏🏼 deconditioning . Symptoms associated with effort expenditure in #LongCO….
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Patients with long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) suffer from a reduced exercise capacity, skeletal muscle abnormalities and post-exertional malaise (PEM),...
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RT @C_Scheibenbogen: ME/CFS and Long Covid - Digging Deeper - in Norwegen, sehr guter Austausch mit Brian Hughes, Oystein Fluge, Kristian S….
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RT @LongCovidNL: 🔬 Nieuwe inzichten over spierveranderingen bij long covid en ME. In een baanbrekend onderzoek van @RobWust (Vrije Universi….
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@BraedenCharlton @RichieGoulding1 @m_eggelbusch 🔗 You can read the full study (as preprint now) here: Thanks to a lot of funders for the support! @ZonMw @PlzSolveCFS @MEResearchUK @patientled.
medrxiv.org
Patients with long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) suffer from a reduced exercise capacity, skeletal muscle abnormalities and post-exertional malaise (PEM),...
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@BraedenCharlton @RichieGoulding1 @m_eggelbusch 📚 Conclusions. Understanding these distinct muscle changes is crucial for developing effective treatments for Long COVID and ME/CFS patients, moving beyond the inaccurate recommendations to simply increase physical activity.
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@BraedenCharlton @RichieGoulding1 @m_eggelbusch ⚠️ Implications. The muscle alterations in Long COVID and ME/CFS are not solely due to physical inactivity. This indicates underlying disease mechanisms affecting muscle function, necessitating targeted therapeutic approaches. Exercise training (less activity)likely does not work.
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