The Stop-MS appeal by the MS Society aims to be in the final stages of testing treatments (to slow down or stop disability progression) for everyone with MS by 2025. They plan to raise £100 million and part of this funding will go towards the development of an “MS Trials Platform”.
The ambition of the MS Trials Platform is to develop treatments up to three times faster than is currently done now. It will provide a structure to test new and re-purposed drugs (those that are already used in other conditions) more quickly and cheaply. It also aims to have a community of people ready who are interested in MS Trials by having them pre-register so they can be contacted if they are eligible.
Another aim of the MS Trials Platform is to ensure that it is accessible to as many people with MS as possible.
The MS Register will be asking their participant’s to answer a questionnaire on their views on the idea of the MS Trials platform, what might make people decide to register and if they did, how they might like to be communicated with regarding potential trials.
