MS Organizations

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In the meantime, you can search the archives for past news or check out the sites listed in the box on the lower right of this page titled Other Sites For MS News.

The latest issue of the Accelerated Cure Project print newsletter is available for download as a PDF. Feature article is on Vitamin D and MS.

New MSNews accounts will be on hold from Friday August 8th through Tuesday August 19th. Art will be on his first real vacation since starting Accelerated Cure Project, and will not be doing anything work related at all while he is away.

Feel free to continue applying for accounts - he'll deal with them when he returns.
We'll be back, business as usual, on August 20th.

Hollie will be editor during this period.

Accelerated Cure Project is unveiling a new program to support volunteers looking to take a lead role in our mission to determine the causes of MS.

The Volunteer Track is a structured program that guides new volunteers through their first volunteer opportunity of assisting in a personal mailing, and helps experienced volunteers carry out larger projects such as fundraising event or creating internal infrastructure for our staff.

You can check out our Volunteer Track program online here or call Jane at 781-487-0010.

Accelerated Cure Project will have several of their videos broadcast on the new Satellite network Starfish TV. Let us know if you see it.

Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis announced that they have completed their initial drive to collect one thousand blood and data samples to build the largest openly accessible, multi-disciplinary repository ever assembled for use in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research.

You can see the current status here.

Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis was invited to present their approach to MS via the repository to the Brain Institute at Utah University in April 2008.

This video is a good overview of the repository. Art didn't repeat the questions asked at the end, but you can figure out most of them from the answers.

The 2007 Annual Report for the Accelerated Cure Project is available online as a PDF. It's a good overview of the organization and covers what we accomplished last year. Many thanks to Clockwork Design Group Inc. for pulling this together and getting us the photographers, printers, and paper.

Hard-copy versions will be mailed out in the coming weeks to donors who gave $250 or more or on request.

Accelerated Cure Project has posted their latest newsletter as a PDF on their web site. Lot's of info on the repository, where it's going, and what it is currently being used for.

Thanks to generous financial and organizational support from Stan Trotman, the Banbury Center, and Jim Watson, Accelerated Cure Project was able to convene a meeting of 20+ researchers to discuss how to address a disease that has both genetic susceptibility and environmental triggers.

We invited MS neurologists and researchers, researchers from related fields, and from other diseases to come together from 2/3/08 thru 2/6/08 at the Banbury Center on Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island and talk about what they work on and how it could be applied to cracking a disease like MS.

My sketchy notes are included below - I didn't do the same level of detail we do for AAN and ECTRIMS because the pace was too fast, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to share them.

It was a great meeting and we are working on a high-level proposal to circulate among the attendees for a major study that incorporates what we learned. We'll follow that up with a detailed proposal once we get feedback from the participants.

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