neuromyelitis optica

He is medical director of neurosciences and medical and scientific affairs at ICON.

And he is a neurologist and neuroimmunologist for MS, NMOSD and demyelinating diseases in Guadalajara in Mexico.

So this is another interesting one, and I hope it broadens your view of MS care and treatment worldwide.

And with that, please stay as positive and active as possible.

Well, you kind of just explained why it's moved into autoimmune disease, but why...

NMOSD, neuromyelitis optica, spectrum disorder, and MOG antibody disorder, MOGAD.

Why has it moved directly into these

Into these disorders.

The USA is also very active in CAR T cell therapy.

Europe is also putting in an additional effort to also be able to offer those therapies to treatment refractory patients and to learn more about it.

And those are the reasons that CAR T-cell therapy also got into patients' trials with NMOSD and cases with MOGAD.

And some CAR T-cell trials are currently being set up to be able to recruit also patients with NMOSD and with MOGAD.

They didn't know it.

They thought it was what's called neuromyelitis optica.

which is a fatal form of MS.

So I went through months of thinking that I could be dying.

Like, all these diagnoses that they were throwing at me, none of them were pretty.

NMO, neuromyelitis optica.

They told my husband, you know, she's just going to die of a slow paralysis.

Be prepared.

So excited to see you there as well.

To start off, can you tell me a little about your background with NMOSD? When was your symptom onset and when were you diagnosed?

Sure thing.

Thanks for having me here, Chrissy, to answer this.