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PCB welcomes the GAEM Foundation

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 25.11.2008

PCB welcomes the GAEM Foundation

The Grup d'Afectats d'Esclerosi Múltiple Foundation () has been incorporated into the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) as an associate body. The organization plans to set up its headquarters at the PCB in the spring of 2009. The GAEM Foundation, which is presided over by Vicens Oliver Muñiz, is a totally independent non-profit making organization whose objective is to promote research into new treatments for multiple sclerosis (MS) and to offer support to sufferers and their families.

Constituted in 2003 as the GAEM Association, and then transformed into the GAEM Foundation in 2006, the mission of the Foundation is to promote research into new treatments for this neurological disease. One of its most immediate objectives is the work on designing cellular immunotherapy protocols as a potentially curative treatment for MS, as has already been demonstrated in animal models of the disease. The GAEM Foundation is currently cooperating in a clinical research project called Tolervip MS. This research is led by Eva Martínez Cáceres, a specialist in immunology from the Immunobiology Laboratory for Research and Diagnostic Applications (LIRAD) which forms part of the Blood and Tissue Bank, and a researcher for the Trias and Pujol Health Science Research Institute Foundation in Badalona. Work started on the project in 2007 and it is expected to last for three or four years. It is being performed at the immunology laboratories of LIRAD-BST and the Trias and Pujol Health Science Research Institute Foundation. MS is a chronic degenerative inflammatory disease of the central nervous system, whose causes are unknown, and for which there is no cure; there are currently only palliative treatments. It is estimated that in Spain 1 in every 1.000 members of the population is affected by the disease. It has an unpredictable evolution and the people affected range from children to old age pensioners.