The National Multiple Sclerosis Society aspires to bring the global community together to cure MS for everyone, aiming to achieve this goal as swiftly as possible. Their mission involves coordinating and focusing worldwide resources on essential research questions to accelerate progress toward ending MS.
The grant program aligns with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's Pathways to Cures Roadmap, supporting research that aims to stop MS in its tracks, restore function lost due to MS, and end MS forever by preventing it. The program funds all research types, emphasizing studies that foster synergies across disciplines, adhere to data and resource sharing principles, and focus on underserved and understudied ethnic and racial MS populations. Proposals must demonstrate relevance to the Roadmap's research questions. The Ralph I. Straus Award, part of this grant program, seeks to accelerate the conquest of MS by enhancing the recognition of social values in biomedical research, matching the amount of the most recent Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for its recipients.