MS affects over 150,000 people in the UK, damaging the protective coating around nerve fibres and causing difficulties with movement, vision and thinking. Two of the biggest challenges in treating MS are knowing which treatment to give and when, and being able to tell whether repair is actually happening in the brain.

The group's research tackles both of these problems. By analysing data from thousands of patients across the world, the team works to identify which treatments work best and at what stage of the disease. They also develop specialised brain scanning techniques to detect subtle signs of damage and repair that are invisible on standard scans, and work to improve the tools used in clinical trials to measure whether myelin repair treatments are actually working.

Supporting this research will help people with MS receive the right treatments sooner and bring effective repair therapies closer to the clinic.

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