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JK Rowling and the MS Society Scotland fund a new MS Research Centre

and MS, and to develop new treatments so that we can take advantage of the strong neuroscience base in Edinburgh."

Professor Peter Sandercock, Professor of Medical Neurology said: "This is an exciting development. The team from the brain imaging research centre at the Western General Hospital will be working with the MS group to apply the innovative new methods they have developed which can measure the changes in brain inflammation, temperature and nerve-cell interconnections that can occur in MS."

Mark Hazelwood, Director of Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland said: "Scotland has the highest rate of MS in the world. This new Centre will help to put Scotland where it should be at the forefront of the battle against MS. The Centre is the biggest single investment in research ever made by the Society anywhere in the UK."

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Contact: Linda Menzies
Linda.Menzies@ed.ac.uk
44-131-650-6382
University of Edinburgh
19-Apr-2006

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