Reserves Move Research Forward After extensive research and discussion, the Special Committee regarding Reserve Allocation Process (SCRAP) made its recommendations to the Board of Trustees on how to best allocate $2.54 million in reserve funding to drive MS research. This funding was made possible through a successful 2009 event season. Thanks to the support of our donors, the National MS Society: Lone Star was able to expand several research and program initiatives, some of which include:
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$580,285
To support research into progenitor cell-based myelination of the dysmyelinated central nervous system; this research is being conducted by Steven A. Goldman, M.D., Ph.D., with the University of Rochester Medical Center
$225,987
To fund a validation study of diffusion tensor imaging as a physiologically relevant biomarker of brain tissue integrity, conducted by Robert J. Fox, M.D., with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio
$225,987
To support a study into MMPs, IgCAMs and synaptic injury in MS, led by Katherine Conant, M.D., with the Department of Neurosciences at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
$185,000
To fund research on modeling the pathophysiology of Uhthoff’s phenomenon in multiple sclerosis, a study being led by Elliot Frohman, M.D., Ph.D., at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
$172,741
To support an investigation of antigen targeting and tolerance in murine EAE, conducted by Sally Ward, Ph.D., at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
$150,000
To fund two clinical or research fellowships
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