Multiple sclerosis, or MS, affects several million people worldwide, with Colorado claiming one of the highest rates in the country. About one in 360 people in our state has MS, and women with the disease outnumber men by about three to one. Most often diagnosed between the ages 20 to 40, MS generally strikes patients during the prime of life.
While progress has been slow – there is no known cure and it is only since 1993 that any MS treatments have been available – our faculty have been at the center of basic research and clinical trials for decades. Our scientists seek to better understand the progressive and unpredictable disease, which scars the protective myelin sheath around nerves of the central nervous system, causing wide-ranging symptoms that…
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