Howard Hughes Medical Institute sets up $600M research fund

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Fifty-six of the nation's most creative biomedical scientists are being given the opportunity to tackle their most ambitious, risky research plans, as they become the newest class of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators. The Institute is committing more than $600 million over their first term of appointment.

http://www.hhmi.org/news/20080527.html

There are also links to what each researcher is studying. None specifically target MS that I could find but neurology, cellular functioning, gene silencing, and the immune system are all involved.