The MS Campaign
MS Stand Up is MBPF’s annual comedy benefit funding cutting-edge MS research. Each year, the board targets urgent, underfunded areas—and directs all proceeds from the event to those efforts.
This year’s proceeds will support Dr. Yinghua Ma at Weill Cornell Medicine, who is investigating whether the common gut bacterium Clostridium perfringens plays a role in triggering MS. One of its resulting toxins, epsilon toxin (ETX), may disrupt the blood-brain barrier and set off the immune cascade that leads to the disease. If confirmed, this research could pave the way for earlier diagnosis, prevention, and new treatment strategies.
Last year, after the first Comedy Club benefit, MS Stand Up supported two successful research efforts that have subsequently received significant funding from other sources. We are proud to have been a part of moving these efforts forward.
MS is the Disease we are targeting in the MS Stand Up Campaign.
We evaluate and determine where there are unmet financial needs and send the dollars we raise to these areas of research.
If these research initiatives are not funded, the scientists can not move forward and often promising avenues of exploration will be lost.
Let’s not let this happen. “Donate Now” to keep research moving.
Money raised from this year’s event will directly support the groundbreaking research of Dr. Yinghua Ma. His work is focused on further refining and establishing the crucial role a common bacteria many investigations indicate is playing in initiating the cascade of events that is MS. This research holds immense promise for understanding and ultimately combating this challenging disease.
