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Dr. Richard Ransohoff (center) accepts the 2012 John Dystel Prize for MS
Research from Dr. Bruce Cohen (left), chair of the Dystel Prize Committee,
and Timothy Coetzee, PhD, chief research officer of the Society.
Dr. Richard Ransohoff awarded
2012 Dystel Research Prize
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by Sara Bernstein
Professor Richard Ransohoff, MD, has a meaningful
photograph on the wall of his
Cleveland Clinic office. It’s
an image—taken through a
microscope—of his team’s initial
discovery that immune-system
messenger proteins known as
“chemokines” were important
players in the immune attack
that occurs in multiple sclerosis.
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