EMD Serono – Mississauga, ON

EMD Serono’s partnership with the MS Society began well over a decade ago. Over the years, EMD Serono’s continued commitment to elevating awareness of MS and efforts to better understand it have helped make the MS Society the relied-upon resource for information and education on living with MS in a hopeful way. To-date, EMD Serono’s generosity has totaled more than $2.5 million in support of MS Society programs.

EMD Serono’s support of the MS Society spans the entire organization and their employees are actively involved in events from coast-to-coast. Deborah Brown, EMD Serono’s president, is a founding member of Women Against MS (WAMS) and has been instrumental to the success of the program.

Most recently, EMD Serono supported the endMS campaign with a gift of $500,000, fully funding a prestigious endMS Transitional Career Development Award. The successful candidate of this award is Dr. Manu Rangachari, a research fellow with Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.

“Offering support to patients living with MS is about more than offering a line of products that treat the disease. It's also about offering hope for the future and the means to bring that hope to life. That's why we also focus on providing patient support services, are actively engaged in fundraising for the MS Society, and now are pleased to support the research goals of the endMS campaign,” says Deborah. "Creating an environment where research into MS will flourish in Canada is vital to increase our understanding of the disease, improve treatments and ultimately finding a cure."