The MS Society Edinburgh Centre for MS Research is a multidisciplinary centre-without-walls funded by the MS Society, dedicated to laboratory, translational and clinical research into multiple sclerosis. Image The MS Centre brings together research expertise in multiple sclerosis (MS) from across the University of Edinburgh. The Centre was founded in 2007 with a grant from the MS Society, which was renewed in 2015 and again in 2021 with a further £1.85 million. Arguably the greatest need in MS is effective treatments to slow, stop or reverse the accumulation of disability, especially in the progressive phase. This is something that people living with the condition tell us continually. To give people with progressive MS the very best chance of finding a beneficial medicine, and fast, research within the Centre is focused on three areas:understanding more about neurodegeneration in progressive MScreating a drug discovery pipeline involving tests to screen drugs that may prevent neurodegenerationimproving the ways we can use brain imaging in people with MS, to measure neurodegeneration and test the effectiveness of drugs in clinical trialsSummary videoIn this 6-minute video, you will meet some of the researchers at the Centre and find out how we are working to achieve our research aims. HTML Document Transcript of the MS Research Centre summary video (159.5 KB / PDF) Contact usTo get in touch, please email Pamela Macdonald, Stakeholder Engagement Manager, on ms-research-centre@ed.ac.uk.For media enquiries, please contact press.office@ed.ac.uk.MS Centre leadership teamThe MS Society Edinburgh Centre for MS Research is led by four highly experienced Professors at the University of Edinburgh.Professor David Lyons (co-Lead)Chair of NeurobiologyProfile Professor Anna Williams (co-Lead)Chair of Regenerative NeurologyProfile Professor Adam WaldmanChair of NeuroradiologyProfile Professor Siddharthan ChandranMacDonald Chair of NeurologyProfile Co-InvestigatorsAll are University of Edinburgh unless otherwise stated.Dr Rafael AlmeidaChancellor's FellowProfileDr Mark BastinReader in Brain ImagingProfileProfessor Neil CarragherChair of Drug DiscoveryProfileDr Peter ConnickHonorary Clinical Senior LecturerProfileProfessor Tim CzopkaChair of Glial Cell BiologyProfileProfessor Julia EdgarChair of Neurobiology, University of GlasgowProfileProfessor Seth GrantChair of Molecular NeuroscienceProfileProfessor Giles HardinghamCity of Edinburgh Chair of PharmacologyProfileProfessor David HuntChair of Neuroinflammation MedicineProfileDr Don MahadSenior Clinical LecturerProfileProfessor Dies MeijerChair of Cellular NeurobiologyProfileDr Veronique MironMRC Senior Non-Clinical FellowProfileProfessor Josef PrillerChair of Brain Inflammation and RepairProfileProfessor Colin SmithChair of NeuropathologyProfileProfessor Tara Spires-JonesChair of NeurodegenerationProfileDr Adriana TavaresResearch Fellow in Positron Emission TomographyProfileProfessor Joanna WardlawChair of Applied NeuroimagingProfileDr Lida ZoupiChancellor's FellowProfileRelated linksMS Society This article was published on 2024-08-27
