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 seeks to foster advances in MS research aligned with the Society's strategic goals outlined by the Pathways to Cures Roadmap: stopping MS, restoring function lost to MS, and ending MS through prevention. It supports a broad range of research, including laboratory and human studies, population-based research, and data-intensive investigations that promote collaboration across disciplines, emphasize data and resource sharing, and focus on underserved and understudied racial and ethnic populations within the MS community. Specifically, the Postdoctoral Fellowships are designed to support promising early-career researchers in conducting relevant MS research that has the potential to contribute meaningfully to the field. They prioritize projects that align with the Society’s research priorities, intending to enhance the trainees' future prospects in performing independent research and securing suitable positions for continuing their contributions to MS research. The fellowship, providing salary support for up to three years, emphasizes new research training and broadening the scientific knowledge of the applicants.