A University of Adelaide researcher has published results
that suggest a possible new mechanism to control multiple sclerosis (MS).
Dr Iain Comerford from the University's School of Molecular
and Biomedical Science earned a three-year fellowship from MS Research
Australia to work on this project. It is directed towards understanding how
specific enzymes in cells of the immune system regulate immune cell activation
and migration.
Along with his colleagues, Professor Shaun McColl and PhD
students Wendel Litchfield and Ervin Kara, he focused on a molecule known as
PI3Kgamma, which is involved in the activation and movement of white blood
cells.