National Multiple Sclerosis Society

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The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, a United States-based non-profit organization, and its network of chapters nationwide help people affected by MS by funding cutting-edge research, driving change through advocacy, facilitating professional education, and providing programs and services that help people with MS and their families move their lives forward. It is headquartered in New York City.

Founded in 1946, originally under the name Association for Advancement of Research on Multiple Sclerosis, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society supports more MS research, offers more services for people with MS, provides more professional education programs, and furthers more MS advocacy efforts than any other MS organization in the world.^{[citation needed]}

Fund raising events:

• Walk MS
• Bike MS
• MS Challenge Walk
• MuckFest MS

Research

The National MS Society supports and funds research activities spanning all research stages, including early discovery research, translational research that brings promising ideas forward into actual therapeutic solutions for testing, and clinical trials. This unique approach drives the pursuit of all promising avenues that can impact those living with multiple sclerosis. In 2012, the Society invested $44 million in over 350 new and ongoing projects.

Thanks in large part to the scientific collaboration fostered by the Society, in less than two decades, MS has moved from an untreatable disease to one where there are now nine FDA approved therapies for relapsing MS, the most common form of the disease, and another half dozen in late stage development or already before the FDA for review.

External links

• The National Multiple Sclerosis Society
• The National Multiple Sclerosis Society - MS Connection