🔬 Charcot Fund 2026: 6 New Research Projects Focused on Inflammation in Multiple Sclerosis
This year, six new projects have been selected and funded through the Charcot Fund, the Foundation’s research funding programme dedicated to scientific research in Belgium.
Each project was rigorously evaluated by an independent scientific jury, ensuring their quality, originality, and potential impact.
🧠 A clear focus: understanding inflammation in the brain
The 2026 edition highlights a central challenge: gaining a deeper understanding of what happens when inflammation affects the nervous system.
Several teams are addressing key questions:
- Why do certain immune cells, meant to protect the body, become dysregulated?
- How do some cells worsen damage while others contribute to repair?
- How can we develop more targeted treatments to calm these inflammatory mechanisms?
🔍 Towards more personalized medicine
Other projects explore complementary and essential avenues for the future:
- identifying markers to better predict disease progression;
- understanding the role of external factors, such as the Epstein–Barr virus;
- and exploring interactions between the gut, the immune system, and the brain, opening the way to more individualized approaches.
💛 Turning research into concrete solutions
Behind these projects are committed researchers, ambitious hypotheses, and a shared ambition:
to better detect, better predict, better treat, and better repair.
Your support directly fuels the Charcot Fund, making it possible to finance these projects and accelerate scientific progress.
Thank you for being, year after year, a key driver of research.