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@LucyH 

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Rant: MS research fundraising?

Dear All I have just discovered that the UK's MS Society gave £1.2 million in research funding to universities in 2015. Yet it spent £6.9 million in the same year on fundraising, and a generous £10.5 million on salaries that year too. This information was given to me by the MS Society itself, so t...
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Glutamate ms research

Hi, to the scientists out there. I found in youtube a very interesting talk from Indrani Das https://youtu.be/UVRNZzQZezQ Basically she says the presence of glutamate in brain injuries would lead to neuronal death, and they tried a micro-rna and see this improves neuronal survival . I have found o...
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Europe's Biggest MS research conference

And we're going to it! From Wednesday 10th to Friday 12th Oct, a team of Shift.ms MS Reporters will be at ECTRIMS (European Committee for Treatment and Research into Multiple Sclerosis) and interviewing a number of leading MS experts. The team will be reporting back the latest on MS research deve...
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6th BARTS MS Research Day for MSers

Hi all, Just wanted to let you know that the 6th research day held by the BARTS research team in London is on the 21st March. The team will cover existing and emerging therapies in MS and several other research topics. To read more about the event and sign up for a free place, please click on the...
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New MS Research/Gut Flora

Interesting findings… https://neurosciencenews.com/multiple-sclerosis-inflammation-22512/
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@PeriklisPapaloukas 

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LGBT and MS research

Hi everyone, I'm Periklis and I'm conducting research for my PhD in the psychosocial experience of LGBT people living with MS. I'm currently looking for more people to take part and share their perspectives with me concerning their experiences. I would highly appreciate it if you would take a few m...
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Exploring fatigue in MS research

Hi all, We've been approached by a researcher at Kings College London who would like the community to help with research they are doing. Details below... ..................................................................................................................................................
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MS research...

https://journals.lww.com/neurotodayonline/Fulltext/2018/02220/At_the_Bench_Multiple_Sclerosis__Unraveling_the.5.aspx Is this saying that bad cholesterol prevents remyelination? 🤔
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The Biggest MS Research conference

And we're there! Reporters Nat, Robby, Aoife, Michaela, Patrick and Grace are at MS Paris 2017 interviewing MS Experts from across the world! We'll be sharing interviews throughout the next few days so please keep an eye on the forum and our social channels for latest news from the world's bigges...
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MS Research Australia

Ms Research Australia is conducting some focus groups in Sydney on the 12 Nov to gain an understanding of the type of research info we want and how to focus their information to us. If you are in Sydney and you have the time to attend it would be great to get your point of view. Here is the informat...
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