Fundraiser walks benefiting multiple sclerosis research will take place Saturday throughout Indiana.
Worthen Arena was chosen as a location for the annual event because it is convenient for residents of East Central Indiana, Dorothea Bragg, community development manager for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, said.
Bragg said more than 200 people were registered at the location as of Friday afternoon, but she expects to have more register on the day of the walk.
Registration begins at 8 a.m. and the walk will start at 9 a.m. Participants can choose from a one-mile course or a three-mile route, Bragg said.
"They walk to support finding a cure for MS," she said, "to one day have a world free of MS."
Keri Lobsiger, clinical research coordinator at the Fort Wayne Neurological Center, said the medical community is getting closer and closer to achieving this goal. The facility is leading in the research of administering oral trials as an alternative treatment method to IV and injectable treatments. If approved, oral medication could replace the old treatments that are used to prevent progression of the disease.
"This is something patients are waiting for," Lobsiger said. "It would be really cool to start with a compound and carry it through to the [Food and Drug Administration]."
The Fort Wayne company is one of only six cites in the country testing a new compound, and one of 20 cites testing another unique compound, she said. The results of these year-long trials have been unreleased, she said. Bragg said she hopes that community support for events like the walk on Saturday will help to further this research.
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