MS Stand Up is a grassroots fundraising campaign powered by people living with multiple sclerosis and the people who love them. We’re a community on a mission: to keep promising, high-impact MS research alive while it’s still too new, too risky, or too unglamorous to attract institutional funding.
We’re not funding the usual suspects — we’re backing bold ideas.
Our efforts support cutting-edge investigations led by Dr. Timothy Vartanian at Weill Cornell Medicine, in collaboration with scientists at The Rockefeller University. These projects address unmet, often overlooked needs in the MS research ecosystem. They might not make headlines, but without them, the science stalls. We fund what’s essential — not what’s trendy.
Every dollar raised goes to the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University, directed toward MS research under Dr. Vartanian’s leadership. Each year, the Mind Brain Philanthropic Foundation (MBPF) — the nonprofit behind MS Stand Up — evaluates where funding is most urgently needed to keep vital research moving until larger institutions can take it the rest of the way.