Multiple Sclerosis Discovery: The Podcast Of The Ms Discovery Forum

[intro music]   Host – Dan Keller Hello, and welcome to Episode Forty of Multiple Sclerosis Discovery, the podcast of the MS Discovery Forum. I’m your host, Dan Keller.   This week’s podcast features an interview with Raj Kapoor who discusses a clinical trial of the epilepsy drug, phenytoin, for MS. But first, a few updates on the latest developments at MSDF.   We posted an essay by Dr. Katie Lidster of the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement, & Reduction of Animals in Research, a U.K.-based scientific organization. In her essay, she points out that Dr. Kapoor’s phenytoin study was made possible by the prior development of a refined mouse model of MS that is more humane than experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, which results in paralysis. To find Dr. Lidster’s article, go to msdiscovery.org and click first on News and Future Directions and then on Essays and Opinions.   Our Drug-Development Pipeline includes continually updated information on 44 investigational agents for MS. During th