How you can leave a lasting legacy by fast-tracking
life-changing MS research
Gifts in Wills are a driving force behind MS research
Leaving a gift in your Will is a wonderful opportunity to allow your values and beliefs to live on, so it’s important to make sure your gift goes through exactly as you’d like.
If you would like to choose for your gift to be used to accelerate vital MS research, we recommend making your wishes known to your Solicitor, Trustee Company or with the Gift in Wills Team at MS Plus.
By choosing to direct your visionary gift in your Will towards MS research, you can be the force behind life-changing research projects like these. Even 1% of your estate can help fast-track a cure for MS, and provide care until we’re there.
You can help to reverse MS
Leaving a visionary gift in your Will to MS research can help bring a cure for MS closer by providing funding for project grants like Associate Professor Anthony Don’s.
Associate Professor Don is studying the way the immune systems of people with MS attack the coating of nerves – known as myelin sheaths. He’s working to discover if there is a way of encouraging the body to repair those myelin sheaths – a process called remyelination.
There are currently no therapies that stimulate remyelination, but Associate Professor Don’s work could open the way to the development of drugs that reverse the symptoms of MS and make the future better for people living with MS.
You can help discover the predictors and preventions of MS
The generation of new ideas in MS research is absolutely critical to discovering ways to predict and prevent MS. By leaving an incredibly selfless gift in your Will to MS research, you can help make innovation in MS research possible by providing Incubator Grants to MS researchers like Dr Belinda Kaskow.
You may already know that in MS, the immune system attacks the brain and spinal cord, leading to impairments.
Recent research has taught us that regulatory T cells are responsible for controlling the immune cells that cause these attacks. In MS, these cells can’t control the immune cells that attack the brain, leading to uncontrolled attacks.
Dr Kaskow’s project will investigate whether regulatory T cells have normal function in the precursor of MS and whether they can control immune cells that attack the brain.
This will help to identify how early this immune imbalance occurs and how MS begins, allowing us to develop strategies to prevent MS from developing.
A gift in your Will can help to progress innovative research like this, helping to make a better future for people with MS.
By choosing to direct your generous gift in your Will to MS research*, you can help to make a better future for people with MS. If you would like to choose for your gift to be used to fast-track life-changing MS research, please indicate your wishes to your Solicitor, Trustee Company or reach out to Laura Henschke and Rebecca Stalenberg the Gift in Will Team at MS Plus:
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A gift in your Will can help to discover a cure for MS, as well as continue to deliver improvements in treatment, care and support that will make every day better for people with multiple sclerosis. Even 1% of your estate can make a huge difference. Call: 1800
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