Funding more MS research than any other voluntary agency in the world, in 2007, the National MS Society will invest $45 million into MS research projects in the U.S. and abroad, supporting more than 380 research projects. Between its inception in 1946 and the end of fiscal year 2007, the Society will have invested a cumulative $550 million in research.

To encourage innovative research into highly promising, but understudied, research areas, the National Capital Chapter has committed to raise $1 million by the year 2010 to invest in research into the cause and cure of MS. The National Capital Chapter is part of a nationwide campaign, PROMISE: 2010. The goal is to invest $30 million into targeted MS research.
To learn more about this initiative, click here.

The National MS Society continually works on many research fronts, with goals including:

• Speeding the development of treatments, prevention and the cure;
• Understanding the disease process;
• Preventing and reversing damage to the nervous system and improving function;
• and improving the quality of life, care and delivery of medical services for people with MS.

Seven of the Society sponsored research projects are currently underway in the Washington, D.C. metro area. Click here for a complete list.

Check out issues of the National MS Society's research newsletter, Research Highlights.

• Winter/Spring 2007
• Summer/Fall 2006
• Winter/Spring 2006
• Summer/Fall 2005
• Winter/Spring 2005
• Summer/Fall 2004

For the latest research information, please visit the National MS Society’s research webpage at http://www.nationalmssociety.org/research.asp.

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