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Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Information About MS

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a disease in which myelin, a sheath of fatty tissue around the nerves that insulates them and helps them conduct electrical signals, becomes damaged, lost or scarred (sclerotic) in many places.

Hope Center Research Related to MS

Anne H. Cross, M.D. Professor of Neurology, Manny and Rosalyn Rosenthal and Dr. John Trotter MS Center Chair in Neuroimmunology, Director, Multiple Sclerosis Center

Sheng-Kwei (Victor) Song, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Radiology


Washington University Sites

  • MS Center at Washington University School of Medicine and BJC Hospital