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Dr. Tiwari-Woodruff at a lab computer with a student

The Search for a Multiple Sclerosis Treatment in Riverside

There’s currently no effective treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS), but Seema Tiwari-Woodruff, Ph.D. , the director of UCR's Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, may be well on her way to finding one. As MS attacks the body, it causes damage to the myelin sheath, the fatty coating around nerve fibers that...

By Erika Klein | August 2, 2022 | Profiles
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