The drug aims to provide new evidence to help diagnose MS and evaluate the scope of damage inflicted on the central nervous system.
Researchers from Cleveland-based Case Western Reserve University developed the drug, which will be tested in healthy volunteers at Cleveland Clinic Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis.
Administered through an IV before a PET scan, Myeliviz targets and binds to myelin, the casing surrounding nerves affected by MS.
The National Institutes of Health provided a $1.7 million grant to make the trial possible.
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