More than 50 U.S. university and hospital-based academic neurology departments and MS centers presented papers at the meeting. The top five centers in terms of the numbers of papers presented included: State University of New York-Buffalo with 16 papers, WSU with 12 papers, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, with 11 papers, Mayo Clinic with 10 papers and the Neuroimmunology Branch, a National Institutes of Health branch, with 9 papers.

Six of WSU’s 12 papers were investigator initiated, and six were as a result of multi-center phase II and III clinical trials. Several related publications are already in press or being peer-reviewed for publication. Omar Khan, M.D., professor of Neurology, is director of the Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Research Center & Neuroimaging Laboratory at Wayne State University School of Medicine.