What other projects related to CCSVI are planned by the BC/SASK CCSVI Research Team?
The majority of MS research in Canada is funded by the MS Society of Canada which is completely supported by donations. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is another major funding agency for research in Canada. The team from Vancouver Coastal Health and UBC submitted a grant application to CIHR on March 1, 2010. If successful, the team will be able to investigate the role of iron in the brain in CCSVI and MS and develop new MRI techniques for the imaging of MS. The SASK research team has also submitted a grant to CIHR investigate imaging of iron in the MS brain using a highly specialized and unique Synchrotron technology (www.lightsource.ca). The next round of grant applications for the MS Society and CIHR is in September and October of 2010. Those grants would not start until the spring of 2011. Many grants are rejected the first time and need to be rewritten and resubmitted which could delay them by 6 to 12 months. Studies looking at the benefits of treatment could beg
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