Funder: American Academy of Neurology
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2027 (Applications close)
Funding Amounts: $40,000 prize, sculpture, Annual Meeting registration, and eligible travel expenses
Summary: Recognizes innovative research with lasting impact on the understanding, prevention, treatment, or cure of multiple sclerosis.
Key Information: Industry employees are ineligible; recipients are expected to deliver a 20-minute AAN Annual Meeting lecture.
Description
The John Dystel Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Research is awarded jointly by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Supported by a special contribution from the John Dystel Multiple Sclerosis Research Fund, it recognizes outstanding research contributions that have changed thinking about multiple sclerosis and advanced its understanding, prevention, treatment, or cure.
The prize emphasizes recent and ongoing active research rather than lifetime achievement. Innovative work with lasting impact on understanding or treating multiple sclerosis is the primary consideration. Relevant research includes etiology, pathophysiology, treatment, diagnosis, quality of life, and health care delivery. Advances in other central nervous system inflammatory diseases count only insofar as they improve understanding of multiple sclerosis.
