Announcements
The International Progressive MS Alliance is bringing researchers and other stakeholders from around the world together to solve four challenging research problems. Our single aim is to understand and overcome some of the biggest barriers to treatment development for progressive MS.
Visit this section regularly to find out about the latest research, developments, news and announcements from the Alliance and its members. We will occasionally feature stories from other sources where they have a direct impact on our work and our goal.
- Alliance Researchers Discover a Subset of Brain Cells That Fight Inflammation with Instructions from gut Bacteria
- International Progressive MS Alliance Makes Recommendations for Improving Early Phase Clinical Trials
- Alliance-Funded Study Shows that Stem Cells Derived from Skin Cells of People with MS Make Normal Nerve-Insulating Myelin
- Next Chair and Vice Chair of the Alliance Scientific Steering Committee Selected
- Neurology® Publishes The International Progressive MS Alliance Findings and Recommendations on Serum Neurofilament Light as a Biomarker in Progressive MS
- Potential Treatment for Progressive MS Fails to Meet Endpoints
- Company Announces Positive Results from Trial of Masitinib in Progressive MS
- Watch the global webcast on discovering life-changing treatments for Progressive MS
- Professor Francisco Qunitana, Lead Scientist of a Collaborative Research Network of the International Progressive MS Alliance, Wins Barancik Prize for Innovation in MS Research
- European Commission approves Mayzent® (Siponimod) for people with secondary progressive MS
- Watch the online discussion on symptom management & well-being in progressive MS
- Challenges in Progressive MS Awards: taking risks to reap rewards
- U.S. FDA Approves Cladribine for People with Active Secondary Progressive MS
- U.S. FDA approves Siponimod for people with secondary progressive MS
- Live webcast : Solving Progressive MS
- Results Reported from Innovative “MS-SMART” Clinical Trial in Secondary Progressive MS Presented at ECTRIMS
- Rehabilitation and symptom management at the Alliance’s 3rd Scientific Congress
- Alliance Collaborative Network Award identifies links between diet, gut bacteria and immune activity in a mouse model
- 100 Years of Mateship: ‘An amazing journey of perseverance’
- Coming together in Amsterdam: the MSIF movement
- Results Published from Trial of Siponimod in Secondary Progressive MS
- Results Announced from Clinical Trial of Idebenone in Primary Progressive MS
- European Medicines Agency approves first disease-modifying therapy for primary progressive MS
- Negative results from phase 2 clinical trial for laquinimod in primary progressive MS
- First disease modifying therapy for primary progressive MS in Europe
- Interesting results of phase 2 clinical trial for people with progressive MS
- Live webinar – Drs. Arnold, Martino and Quintana discuss their Alliance projects
- Two Alliance members fund multi-million pound trial to investigate if statins could become MS treatment
- Report from the third annual Industry Forum meeting
- First disease modifying therapy for primary progressive MS
- FDA extends review of ocrelizumab
- Live webcast with Dr. Francisco Quintana
- €12.6 million awarded to 3 projects in global effort to end progressive MS
- Positive phase III results showing efficacy of BAF312 (siponimod) in patients with secondary progressive MS
- Progressive MS Alliance Industry Forum: maximizing collective impact to enable drug development
- Federal Drug Administration grants priority review for ocrelizumab in primary progressive and relapsing MS
- Update on Challenge and Infrastructure Awards
- Alliance stakeholders consider challenges and next steps at the second scientific congress
- Lay members join the Scientific Steering Committee
- Federal Drug Administration designates experimental therapy, ocrelizumab as ‘Breakthrough Therapy’ for treatment of primary-progressive MS
- Epilepsy drug could protect nerves from damage in MS
- Scientific meeting in Boston – March 2015
- Alliance expands worldwide
- Progressive MS Alliance boosts research
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