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Multiple Sclerosis Australia

Multiple Sclerosis Australia is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Multiple Sclerosis Australia rather than just read about it. In short: Multiple Sclerosis Australia, or MS Australia, is a national non-profit organization in Australia that coordinates and allocates funds for multiple sclerosis research. Founding MS Australia was established in 2004 by founding chairman Simon McKeon.

Key takeaways

Multiple Sclerosis Australia belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Multiple Sclerosis Australia to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Multiple Sclerosis Australia from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Multiple Sclerosis Australia, or MS Australia, is a national non-profit organization in Australia that coordinates and allocates funds for multiple sclerosis research.

Founding MS Australia was established in 2004 by founding chairman Simon McKeon. McKeon handed over to current chairman Paul Murnane in 2010, but still remains the organization's patron. Founding CEO Jeremy Wright handed over to the current CEO, Matthew Miles in 2013. MS Australia was created as an MS-specific national research initiative whose aim is to utilize the Australian science community, and to provide a collaborative approach to MS research.

Contributions MS Australia is a managing member of the International Progressive MS Alliance, which focuses on progressive multiple sclerosis. The organization is also a contributor to the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation (MSIF), based in London. More than $36.7 million has been awarded to 254 MS research projects across both Australia and New Zealand since the organization's establishment in 2004. MS Australia provided funding for a trial to test whether vitamin D supplementation can prevent MS in those who are at risk of developing the disease. This study had similar results to an earlier study published in Neurological Research International. The organization supported the Australian-New Zealand MS Genetics Consortium, which in 2009 discovered two of the key risk genes in MS and subsequently contributed to the International MS Genetics Consortium, that has now discovered over 200 genes that contribute to the risk of developing MS. In 2017, research funded by the organization discovered a possible molecular pathway (the kynurenine pathway) for MS progression, the activation of which may be involved in MS progression. This pathway has already been implicated in other neurological disorders. Also in 2017, MS Australia co-founded a three-year, $750,000 multiple sclerosis paired research fellowship, funding a senior laboratory research fellow and senior MS clinician at the University of Tasmania's Menzies Institute for Medical Research, with the aim of furthering research into developing treatments for MS.

Awards

2015 Australian Charity Awards' Charity of the Year. Public Relations Institute of Australia (PRIA) Golden Target Awards – 'Highly Commended' in the Small Budget/Pro Bono category.

2016 Fundraising Institute of Australia's 'Most Effective Creative Campaign Award' for Kiss Goodbye to MS. Fundraising Institute of Australia's special Events Under $5 Million'. Australian Charity Awards Outstanding Achievement Award.

2017 Telstra Business Awards, 'Australian Charity of the Year'. Telstra Business Awards, 'NSW Charity of the Year'. Telstra Business Awards, 'NSW Business of the Year'. Australian Charity Awards, 'Outstanding Achievement Award'.

Campaigns MS Australia launched a global fundraising campaign, Kiss Goodbye to MS, in 2012. The campaign, which MS International lauded for the scale of the fundraising, was launched to both advance public awareness of the disease, and to raise funds for ongoing research. Since the establishment of the campaign, Kiss Goodbye to MS is now operating in over 15 different countries and is the only global campaign dedicated solely to fundraising for MS research, as at 2016.

MS Australia Platforms Some of these collaborations are:

MS Research Australia Brain Bank Australian MS Longitudinal Study (AMSLS) Prev ANZ- A clinical prevention trial into the effects of vitamin D on MS. ANZ gene- A collaborative Australia-New Zealand genetics study seeking to identify the genes linked with MS. Autologous Haemopoietic Stem Cell Treatment (AHSCT) registry.

References

External links Official website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Multiple Sclerosis Australia

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Multiple Sclerosis Australia claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Multiple Sclerosis Australia before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Multiple Sclerosis Australia ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Multiple Sclerosis Australia

In research: Multiple Sclerosis Australia appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Multiple Sclerosis Australia in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Multiple Sclerosis Australia is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Charity shops, Health charities in Australia, Medical and health organisations based in New South Wales, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Multiple Sclerosis Australia outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Multiple Sclerosis Australia in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Multiple Sclerosis Australia means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Multiple Sclerosis Australia out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Multiple Sclerosis Australia in simple terms?

Multiple Sclerosis Australia, or MS Australia, is a national non-profit organization in Australia that coordinates and allocates funds for multiple sclerosis research. Founding MS Australia was established in 2004 by founding chairman Simon McKeon.

Why does Multiple Sclerosis Australia matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Multiple Sclerosis Australia?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Multiple Sclerosis Australia.