It achieves results by funding transformational research, convening scientific summits to share knowledge and stimulate discovery and collaborating with regulatory bodies, scientific leaders in other diseases and pharmaceutical experts.
Chair
Robert Fox, Professor of Neurology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Staff Neurologist, Vice-Chair of Research, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, (US)
Vice-Chair
Ruth Ann Marrie, Professor of Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba and Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Clinic at Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg, University of Manitoba, (CA)
Members
Sergio Baranzini, Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, (US)
Bruce Bebo, Executive Vice President, Research, National MS Society, (US)
Giampaolo Brichetto, Coordinator, Research in rehabilitation, AISM — Italian MS Society, (IT)
Bill Carroll, Clinical Professor of Neurology, Consultant Neurologist, Neurologist, University of Western Australia, Perron Institute, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, (AU)
Najia Chafai, person living with MS (MA)
Jeremy Chataway, Professor of Neurology/Consultant Neurologist, University College of London, (UK)
Olga Ciccarelli, NIHR Research Professor of Neurology at Institute of Neurology, University College London, (UK)
Anne Cross, Professor of Neurology, Manny and Rosalyn Rosenthal and Dr. John L. Trotter MS Center Chair in Neuroimmunology, Washington University School of Medicine, (US)
Gabriele Dati, Coordinator, Biomedical Research and Grant Office, AISM — Italian MS Society, (IT)
Kathryn Fitzgerald, Associate Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, (US)
Emma Gray, Head of Clinical Trials, MS Society UK, (UK)
Anne Helme, Head of Research and Access, MS International Federation, (UK)
Nana Hempler, Research and Analysis Manager, Scleroseforeningen, (DK)
Reinhard Hohlfeld, Professor, Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Munich University Hospital, (DE)
Douglas Landsman, Vice President, Research, National MS Society, (US)
Catherine Lubetzki, Professor of Neurology, Head of the department of Neurological Diseases, Sorbonne University, Pitie-Salpetriere hospital, (FR)
Fred Lublin, Saunders Family Professor of Neurology, Director, The Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
Xavier Montalban, Professor, Chairman & Director, Neurology-Neuroimmunology Department, Multiple Sclerosis Centre of Catalonia (Cemcat), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital, (ES)
Julia Morahan, Head of Research, MS Research Australia, (AU)
Michelle Ploughman, Professor, Memorial University, Newfoundland, (CA)
Sarah Rawlings, Executive Director of Research & External Affairs, MS Society UK, (UK)
Marco Salvetti, Director of the Center for Neurology and Experimental Therapies, La Sapienza University, Rome, (IT)
Finn Thorup Sellebjerg, Professor, Chief Physician, Department of Neurology, Head, MS center, University of Copenhagen, Danish Multiple Sclerosis Center, Rigshospitalet, (DK)
Martyn Smith, person living with MS (UK)
Joost Smolders, Neurologist and Associate Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam, (NL)
Marie Vaillant, person living with MS (CA)
Clare Walton, Head of Research, MS Society UK, (UK)
Kathy Zackowski, Associate Vice President, Research, National MS Society, (US)
Paola Zaratin, Director of Scientific Research, AISM — Italian MS Society, (IT)
V. Wee Yong, Professor, University of Calgary, (CA)
Chair Emeritus
Alan Thompson, Professor, Pro Provost for London, Dean of Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London
Vice Chair Emeritus
Giancarlo Comi, Honorary Professor of Neurology at the Università Vita Salute San Raffaele, Founder and Director of the Institute of Experimental Neurology at the Scientific Institute San Raffaele, President of the European Charcot Foundation