Listen to the latest updates on cutting-edge projects from MS researchers. You can listen now or download MP3 files to your computer to listen to at your convenience. Each update runs approximately 45 minutes.
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| Fast Forward: Speeding Treatments to People with MS Presented 12/4/08 Hear the presentation
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Dr. Tim Coetzee, Executive Director of Fast Forward
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| Promise: 2010: Nervous System Repair & Protection Presented 1/22/09 Hear the presentation Hear Questions and Answers (15-20 minutes) |
Dr. Patricia O’Looney, VP, Biomedical Research, National MS Society; Dr. Gavin Giovannoni, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry; Dr. Douglas Kerr, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
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New Research Projects |
Dr. Patricia O’Looney, VP, Biomedical Research, National MS Society; Dr. Thomas Lane, University of California, Irvine. Dr. Victor Mark, University of Alabama
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Role of Genetics in MS Hear the presentation (40 minutes) Hear the Questions and Answers (23 minures) |
Dr. Sergio Baranzini of the University of California, San Francisco and Dr. Adrian Ivinson of the Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center and the International MS Genetics Consortium |
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Triggers and Risk Factors Related to MS Hear the presentation (30 minutes) Hear the Questions and Answers (42 minutes) |
Dr. Helen Tremlett, an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Nicholas LaRocca is Vice President of Health Care Delivery and Policy Research |
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MS Treatments on the Horizon Hear the presentation (32 minutes) Hear the Questions and Answers (33 minutes) |
Dr. Richard Rudick, Professor of Medicine and Chair of Neurology at the Cleveland Clinic; Dr. Patricia O’Looney, VP, Biomedical Research, National MS Society |
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Collaboration in MS Research Hear the presentation (24 minutes) Hear the Questions and Answers (20 minutes) |
Dr. Patricia O’Looney, VP, Biomedical Research, National MS Society; Dr. David Hafler, Professor of Neurology at Harvard, and Dr. Jim Salzer, Professor of Cell Biology and Neurology at New York University.
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Gender Differences in MS Hear the presentation (31 minutes) Hear the Questions and Answers (15 minutes)
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Dr. John Richert, Executive VP of Research & Clinical Programs at the National MS Society; Caroline C. Whitacre, Ph.D. is Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at Ohio State University. |