2006 - Good Year?
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:25 am
Dear all,
As you Canadians emerge from you igloos, think of me returning today from ten days in paradise - Mauritius. For the price of half a year's interferon I got - more Vit D than I could handle, a testosterone boost (girls in bikinis), lovely vegetables and fruit (Swank diet for ten days), and best of all, massages from someone trained in traditional Indian massage - US$15 for an hour). But I'll stop boasting.
Lying on my sunbed I spent too long thinking about this disease, but concluded that 2006 might be a much better year than 2005. Why?:
- further results from drugs trials such as FTY720 are looking good, but there's also been good early results on testosterone and doxycycline (recently posted).
- we should see further initial results from Rituximab (PP, SP and RR) and Daclizumab, and some of the neuro-protective drugs being developed e.g. by Neuren.
- love it or loathe it Tysabri should be back.
- Tovaxin and Neurovax are also entering the next trial phases which should show whether they are promising (or not).
- There's also a host of other drugs in the pipeline which look promising and should report results this year.
- We may get some answers relating to genes. The transcript I posted on genes from the NMSS MS Awareness Week suggested that the genes might be identified by the end of this year and Serono claim that their work on genes should be completed by the end of the year.
- I'm also attending the EBV think tank in mid-May which may give some stronger pointers to the role that this virus plays in MS.
- The ACTRIMS and ECTRIMS conferences take place in the Autumn and are showcases for drug trial results and research.
- As another year passes we should also see further outputs from the Lesion Project funded by the NMSS and the Tissue Bank and MRI projects funded by the UK MS Society.
- In August the large NMSS grants for protection and repair will be a year old and may show some initial results.
So the sun has obviously gone to my head, but on reflection, this looks like it might be a better year. Fingers crossed. I'll get back to posting stuff next Tuesday (it's a bank holiday in the UK on Monday and I'll be finishing off my Easter Eggs - can you still say Easter in the US?).
Ian
As you Canadians emerge from you igloos, think of me returning today from ten days in paradise - Mauritius. For the price of half a year's interferon I got - more Vit D than I could handle, a testosterone boost (girls in bikinis), lovely vegetables and fruit (Swank diet for ten days), and best of all, massages from someone trained in traditional Indian massage - US$15 for an hour). But I'll stop boasting.
Lying on my sunbed I spent too long thinking about this disease, but concluded that 2006 might be a much better year than 2005. Why?:
- further results from drugs trials such as FTY720 are looking good, but there's also been good early results on testosterone and doxycycline (recently posted).
- we should see further initial results from Rituximab (PP, SP and RR) and Daclizumab, and some of the neuro-protective drugs being developed e.g. by Neuren.
- love it or loathe it Tysabri should be back.
- Tovaxin and Neurovax are also entering the next trial phases which should show whether they are promising (or not).
- There's also a host of other drugs in the pipeline which look promising and should report results this year.
- We may get some answers relating to genes. The transcript I posted on genes from the NMSS MS Awareness Week suggested that the genes might be identified by the end of this year and Serono claim that their work on genes should be completed by the end of the year.
- I'm also attending the EBV think tank in mid-May which may give some stronger pointers to the role that this virus plays in MS.
- The ACTRIMS and ECTRIMS conferences take place in the Autumn and are showcases for drug trial results and research.
- As another year passes we should also see further outputs from the Lesion Project funded by the NMSS and the Tissue Bank and MRI projects funded by the UK MS Society.
- In August the large NMSS grants for protection and repair will be a year old and may show some initial results.
So the sun has obviously gone to my head, but on reflection, this looks like it might be a better year. Fingers crossed. I'll get back to posting stuff next Tuesday (it's a bank holiday in the UK on Monday and I'll be finishing off my Easter Eggs - can you still say Easter in the US?).
Ian