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2022

Press Releases:

• CDMRP-Funded Research Leads to FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for MS Blood Biomarker Test
  May 13, 2022
• Department of Defense Multiple Sclerosis Research Program Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22)
  March 9, 2022

Research Highlights:

• Physical Telerehabilitation Program for Multiple Sclerosis Patients Improves Patients’ Quality of Life

News:

• UAB investigators receive $3.9 million Department of Defense grant to study interventions for those with multiple sclerosis (external link)
  UAB News, June 8, 2022
• Blood Biomarker Test Granted Breakthrough Device Status by FDA (external link)
  Multiple Sclerosis News Today, May 5, 2022
• New Study Confirms the High Costs of MS to Individuals and the U.S. Economy (external link)
  The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, April 27, 2022

2021

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Multiple Sclerosis Research Program Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21)
  March 17, 2021

Research Highlights:

• Reduced Disease Severity Following Novel Angiotensin 1-7 Treatment in MS Mouse Model
• Imaging Measures Reflect Cognitive Changes Over Time in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
• Exercise Training, Metabolic Changes, and Symptoms in People with MS
• Exploring Remyelination in MS: Myelin, Metformin, and Mitochondria

2020

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Multiple Sclerosis Research Program Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20)
  February 21, 2020

Research Highlights:

• Acceleration of Oligodendrocyte Maturation and Functional Remyelination in an MS Model Following Flavonoid Treatment
• The Role of Protein Deimination in Restoring Visual Function in MS Patients
• Differential Association of Age and Serum Neurofilament Light Chain in MS Patients
• Online Toolkit to Assist with Self-Management of MS Symptoms

2019

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Multiple Sclerosis Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19)
  February 27, 2019

Research Highlights:

• Tap Your Feet to Track Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
• Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Disease Progression in MS
• Sensory-Motor and Cognitive-Motor Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis: A Mobile Brain-Body Imaging Investigation
• Using Reprogrammed Stem Cells as a Therapy for MS

News:

• A metabolic perspective on CSF-mediated neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis (external link)
  BRAIN - A Journal of Neurology, September 5, 2019
• Running Against Multiple Sclerosis (external link)
  Highmark Health, August 7, 2019
• Differences in MS patients' cerebrospinal fluid may be key to drugs that halt progression (external link)
  Neuroscience News, July 23, 2019
• Gut immune cells cut inflammation in multiple sclerosis (external link)
  University of California San Francisco, February 5, 2019

2018

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Multiple Sclerosis Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2018 (FY18)
January 31, 2018

Research Highlights:

• Link Between Alterations in the Gut Microbiota and Multiple Sclerosis

News:

• Pittsburgh marathoner finds 'magic' freedom from multiple sclerosis through running (external link)
  Trib Media Live, June 20, 2018

2017

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Multiple Sclerosis Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2017
January 26, 2017

Research Highlights:

• Developing a Promising New Target in the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis
• Using Advanced MRI Tools to Develop Novel Assessments of Cognition in MS Patients

News:

• Gut Microbes May Influence Multiple Sclerosis Progression
  UC San Francisco, September 22, 2017
• MSRP Consumer Peer Reviewer John Platt sets personal record in Boston Marathon (external link)
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 28, 2017

2016

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Multiple Sclerosis Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2016
Feburary 18, 2016

Research Highlights:

• In Vivo Imaging of Cortical Inflammation and Subpial Pathology in Multiple Sclerosis by Combined PET and MRI

News:

• How Hitting the Reply Button Made Me An MS Advocate (external link)
  Everyday Health, January 7, 2016

2015

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Multiple Sclerosis Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2015
March 16, 2015

Research Highlights:

• Targeting Chemerin Receptor CMKLR1 in Multiple Sclerosis

2014

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Multiple Sclerosis Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2014
March 7, 2014

Research Highlights:

• Determination of the Role of Sulfatides in Remyelination and Disease Progression of Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
• Inhibition of PH20 Hyaluronidase May Effectively Promote Remyelination in Multiple Sclerosis Lesions

News:

• Imaging Technique Shows Brain Anatomy Change in Women with Multiple Sclerosis, Depression (external link)
  Cedars-Sinai, February 9, 2014

2013

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Multiple Sclerosis Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2013
April 16, 2013

Research Highlights:

• Image Guided Approaches in the Diagnostics of Multiple Sclerosis

2012

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Multiple Sclerosis Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2012
February 24, 2012

Research Highlights:

• New Imaging Agent for Early Lesion Detection and Treatment Tracking in MS

2011

Research Highlights:

• PhIP-Seq for Autoantibody Profiling in MS

2010

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Multiple Sclerosis Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2010
January 4, 2010

2009

Press Releases:

• Department of Defense Multiple Sclerosis Research Program Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2009
June 2, 2009

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