The Untreatable Has Become Treatable

“Multiple sclerosis is untreatable, and research into treatments of the disease is the graveyard of many promising careers.”Or so I was told by a respected neurologist in 1993. I was not to be put off though, and soon afterwards joined a team in Cambridge researching a new treatment for MS.We were working on an antibody that killed off lymphocytes – one of the white blood cells that fight off illness. We believe these cells are responsible for relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS),