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 MS creating a drug discovery pipeline involving tests to screen drugs that may prevent neurodegeneration improving the ways we can use brain imaging in people with MS, to measure neurodegeneration and test the effectiveness of drugs in clinical trials Summary video In 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 us To 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 team The 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 Neurobiology Profile Professor Anna Williams (co-Lead) Chair of Regenerative Neurology Profile Professor Adam Waldman Chair of Neuroradiology Profile Professor Siddharthan Chandran MacDonald Chair of Neurology Profile Co-Investigators All are University of Edinburgh unless otherwise stated. Dr Rafael Almeida Chancellor's Fellow Profile Dr Mark Bastin Reader in Brain Imaging Profile Professor Neil Carragher Chair of Drug Discovery Profile Dr Peter Connick Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer Profile Professor Tim Czopka Chair of Glial Cell Biology Profile Professor Julia Edgar Chair of Neurobiology, University of Glasgow Profile Professor Seth Grant Chair of Molecular Neuroscience Profile Professor Giles Hardingham City of Edinburgh Chair of Pharmacology Profile Professor David Hunt Chair of Neuroinflammation Medicine Profile Dr Don Mahad Senior Clinical Lecturer Profile Professor Dies Meijer Chair of Cellular Neurobiology Profile Dr Veronique Miron MRC Senior Non-Clinical Fellow Profile Professor Josef Priller Chair of Brain Inflammation and Repair Profile Professor Colin Smith Chair of Neuropathology Profile Professor Tara Spires-Jones Chair of Neurodegeneration Profile Dr Adriana Tavares Research Fellow in Positron Emission Tomography Profile Professor Joanna Wardlaw Chair of Applied Neuroimaging Profile Dr Lida Zoupi Chancellor's Fellow Profile Related links MS Society This article was published on 2024-06-04