A friend of mine was in an early trial of MBP8298 (dirucotide), and has been receiving the treatment since then. She has had significant improvement in pain, stamina, walking and bladder control with no progression since her first treatment in 2000.

Her neurologist is Dr. Warren, who, along with Ingrid Catz, developed this treatment. Clifford Giese, whose wife Robin has MS, and his brother Kevin, provided the financing and marketing through BioMS Medical Corp. BioMS has since partnered with Eli Lilly.

The researchers feel that since it works on SPMS, there is no reason that it shouldn't work on RRMS since one is a progression of the other. So far it hasn't been tried on PPMS.

If anyone has any questions I can run them by my friend or even put you in touch with her. She doesn't come online but loves talking about her results!

C