Research blog

Oliver Pinna is a PhD student at King's College London. He tells us about his work developing quieter and faster MRI scans for people with MS.

Our Edinburgh Centre’s team of researchers is working to find effective MS treatments. And their work would not be possible without Early Career Researchers.

We caught up with our Legacies Lead Sarah to find out about her recent visit to the MS Society Tissue Bank.

Watch our short film from the Edinburgh Centre for MS Research, and find out how your donation can help stop MS.

Mark was diagnosed with relapsing remitting MS in 2005 and moved into secondary progressive MS a decade later. He joined the MS-STAT2 trial in 2019, and although the results from the trial were not what everyone was hoping for, he recounts his experience on the trial as wholly positive.

Women are two and a half times more likely to get MS than men. And it has different implications for women. Yet historically, women’s health wasn’t the focus of much MS research. So there’s lots we still need to learn.

Researchers at the Edinburgh Centre for MS Research have been working hard to improve our understanding of nerve damage in MS.

Joy Amobi and Laura Khaukha recently interned at the UK MS Register as part of the HDR UK Black Internship Programme, which aims to address the lack of diversity in the research sector. They told us about their experiences and the value of programmes like this.

We spoke to Chris about his motivations for joining the Network and why he believes diversity of thought is essential for shaping meaningful research.

Take a look back at our research highlights from 2024 with Dr Caroline Wennington from our research team.

PhD student Imogen Collier and two people with MS tell us about a project to improve understanding of menopause and MS.

We still don't have a good understanding of why some people develop MS. We've set up the UK MS Prevention Taskforce to learn from these conditions and drive progress towards preventing MS.

Simon Zientek is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. He tells us all about his research using PET scanning to understand MS.

Dr Shruthi Venkatachalam explains how she's helping people with MS who experience domestic violence and abuse.

Dr Rana Fetit is a postdoctoral researcher at our Edinburgh Centre for MS Research. We asked Rana about her myelin repair research and her comic book ‘The Flickering Message’.

Imogen Collier is a PhD student at Queen Mary University of London. She tells us about her research looking into the menopause and MS.

Read the latest MS treatment and research updates from ECTRIMS.

Kellie Horan is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Find out about her research into why some brain nerves die over time in people with MS. And how we might stop it.

Clara Stein is a PhD student at University College Dublin. She tells us how using our brain can help it adapt to MS.

MRI plays a vital role in how we diagnose and monitor MS. In fact, over 90% of people have their MS diagnosis confirmed by MRI.