Seeking a cure and improving quality of life for those who live with multiple sclerosis.

Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic and often debilitating disease of the central nervous system that affects 400,000 people in the United States. The Foundation believes that encouraging innovative research on MS is vital to understanding the causes of the disease, developing effective treatments, and eventually a cure. At the same time, the Foundation realizes that those currently living with MS deserve services that will help them retain their best quality of life.

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Our News Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Opens Nominations for Marilyn Hilton Award for Innovation in Multiple Sclerosis

Nominations are now open for the Marilyn Hilton Award for Innovation in Multiple Sclerosis Research. The goal of the award is to stimulate innovative and potentially paradigm-shifting research on Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (MS), which may otherwise go unfunded in times of fiscal restraint.

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Grantee National MS Society To support the Marilyn Hilton MS Achievement Center at UCLA.
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News from the Field

Eric Spillman Reports How MS Impacts Lives & How the MS Bike Ride is Helping
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October 2018

Dimethyl fumarate targets GAPDH and aerobic glycolysis to modulate immunity
Science
April 2018

Multiple sclerosis expert honored for research on sex differences
UCLA Newsroom
December 2017

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