UC San Francisco researcher wins Breakthrough Prize for multiple sclerosis discovery

A researcher at the University of California, San Francisco was honored for transforming the understanding and treatment of multiple sclerosis, the university said.

Dr. Stephen Hauser, a UCSF professor of neurology and director of the Weill Institute for Neurosciences, shared the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences with Harvard University’s Dr. Alberto Ascherio for their findings on the immune disease that attacks the insulating protein around nerve fibers.