On 11 March 2010, Canada, with the support of all provinces and territories, ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Dr Lekha Pandit, one of the recipients of a 2009 Du Pré Grant visited the MSIF office last week to talk about her experiences as a visiting scholar at Cambridge University and to discuss opportunities for working together in the future.

Fast Forward, the commercial drug development arm of the US National MS Society, has issued a call for research proposals for novel therapeutic approaches to prevent, treat or reverse nervous system damage in MS.