Tisch stem cell trial to be featured on Fox5 news

[David1949]

Tisch MSRCNY Stem Cell Trial
Featured on FOX5 News

The story is scheduled to air Thursday, October 15th at 10:00pm and Friday, October 16th at 5:00pm on channel 5. (It might be on a different channel in your area.)

Dr. Saud A. Sadiq, Director and Chief Research Scientist at the Tisch MS Research Center
of New York will be featured on FOX5 News discussing the dramatic early improvement
demonstrated by the patients in our FDA-Approved Phase I Clinical Stem Cell Trial and the science behind this groundbreaking research.

FOX5 New York is found on channel 5 throughout the tri-state area
(NY, NJ, CT). Once the story airs, Tisch MSRCNY will post a link to view
the segment online via our website, Facebook page and e-mail.

[tzootsi]

Not a big Fox fan, but it's great they are giving Tisch some much deserved publicity!

[David1949]

You can watch the video here http://tischms.org/

Click on the video "The Big Idea"

[tzootsi]

good report - maybe now the national multiple sclerosis society will give them funding.

[HansjoergW]

I'm not sure if funding from the NMSS could be enough. Having a look at their current fundings at http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Nation ... l_2015.pdf, I mainly find fundings from 100'000USD up to 800'000 USD. I don't think, that this is enough to bring a company through a phase II study. For instance, just the costs to take a couple of MRIs during the trial for every participant will probably exceed this amount.

Moreover, I assume that they have an upper limit of funding that they donate per project.

Also, if an organisation provides a larger amount of money to progress with the development of therapies, they should be able to invest the money and not just donate it. If the product is successful, they should be able to participate in the success and, therefore, to make a profit. This additional cash could then be needed to support further projects. However, a non-profit, which is freed from taxes, is not allowed to invest and make a profit ( well, that's probably why it is called non-profit), even if a potential profit is used to support others non-profit projects. At least that is the way how it is handled here in Switzerland.

These and a couple of others are all reasons, why I think that an investment company held by MS-patients and their relatives could make sense (as described in this thread http://www.thisisms.com/forum/general-d ... 26945.html or on http://butterflyeffectproject.jimdo.com/) and is something that I really would like to discuss.

[David1949]

Good comment HansjoergW. I agree with you completely.

[HansjoergW]

@David1949: I'm glad, that at least one person understands me!
But you know, it is not hopeless: it takes two to start a crowd https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_ ... a_movement

[centenarian100]

I like Dr. Tisch. Hopefully, he will do a randomized trial. His results weren't actually that impressive for an open label trial in my opinion, but the treatment seems to be reasonably safe.

"A Manhattan clinic is dramatically changing the lives of people who battle multiple sclerosis." - I don't like this title of the article from fox news. A more reasonable thing to say would be "A new stem cell treatment in multiple sclerosis appears to be safe; further research must be done to see if it is effective." I guess they just say whatever they need to say to draw viewers

Anecdotal evidence means nothing. If we depend on this, there are already 1,000 cures to multiple sclerosis

-cent