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01/08/08	Event raises money for MS, promotes businesses By Richard Cherecwich Allston-Brighton Tab © 2007 GateHouse Media, Inc. "This Sunday, a group of Allston businesses will come together for the Wellness Resolution, a fundraiser for the Accelerated Cure Project for multiple sclerosis research, where participants can sample a plethora of health- and wellness-oriented services..."
12/12/07	Savings for MS Registry By Tony Varano ClinPage.com © 2007 ClinPage "The Accelerated Cure Project data repository is currently being developed through the collection of samples and data at six collection sites across the United States. It has distributed samples and data to six research teams, with two more studies pending. The use of EDC allows staff at these geographically distant collection sites to interview subjects and enter the resulting data into the common database."
11/22/07	His MS project takes collaborative approach to a cure By Stephanie V. Siek Boston Globe, Globe West Section Page 1 © 2007 The New York Times Company "Art Mellor always put blood, sweat, and tears into the high-technology start-ups he worked with, but when he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, following the old maxim became literal."
10/31/07	Recreation: Still plenty of time left to start Half Marathon training schedule By Dana Oppedisano Naples Daily News © 2007 Naples Daily News and NDN Productions "Congratulations to Naples' own Mike Yashko, who ran in the 32nd Marine Corps Marathon..."
10/01/07	Mapping a Cure for MS (PDF 2.32 MB) by Sara Baxter Spinal Column, The Magazine of Shepherd Center, Page 18 © Shepherd Center "Audrey is now one of 145 people with MS taking part in a new research project at Shepherd that could someday lead to a cure."
09/20/07	A random act of kindness: Do Anything Nice club to host benefit event to raise money for multiple sclerosis research By Michelle Golden The Ithacan © 2007 "Do Anything Nice (D.A.N.) will hold a benefit concert and silent auction Sunday to raise awareness about multiple sclerosis..."
09/13/07	Local MS sufferers take action By Linda Stout The Ithaca Journal © The Ithaca Journal "Bonacci, who trained and worked as an engineer and manager at IBM before moving to Ithaca 10 years ago, found the Accelerated Cure approach made sense."
09/07/07	Happy hour promises doggone fun by Gil Kaufman The Enquirer © Enquirer.com "No matter how much you love your dog - unless you know the bar owner or maitre d' - canines usually have to park it at home when you go out for a drink or a bite to eat."
08/31/07	Family Hopes Paralyzed Toddler Will Walk Again WLTX © WLTX-TV 19 "Last spring they heard about a repository project at the UMASS Medical Center outside of Boston. The Accelerated Cure Project aims to collect health information from thousands of TM and MS patients in hopes of one day finding a cure."
08/10/07	Enjoying the 'dog days' of summer CommunityPress.com © CommunityPress.com "At the Canine Happy Hour, dogs will drink free plus receive goody bags and treats. A 3.5-acre off-leash area will be open and available to all vaccinated and non-aggressive dogs over the age of four months."
07/03/07	MS Repository hopes to put multiple sclerosis research of the fast track By Jennifer Lord Metrowest Daily News, Page C1 © GateHouse Media, Inc. "The Accelerated Cure Project isn't a simple foundation dedicated to funding a cure. Its main initiative is the creation of the MS Repository, the largest openly accessible collection of bio-samples ever assembled for use in MS research."
06/28/07	MS Sufferer Working To Find A Cure Dr. Mallika Marshall WBZ TV Boston, 5:00pm © CBS Broadcasting Inc. "...the Whites drove all the way up to Worcester from South Carolina to donate samples from their two-year-old son Will who was paralyzed by Transvere Myelitis..."
06/28/07	Pet Project Express Cincinnati, July/August Page 22 © Express Cincinnati, LLC. "Committee members (two- and four-legged) recently got together to make plans for the 2007 Canine Happy Hour..."
06/25/07	Collaborating for a Cure Elizabeth Cooney Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Page © 2007 Worcester Telegram & Gazette Corp. "Three [subjects] were added last week when the White family drove up from their home in Blythewood, S.C., to become part of the project."
05/21/07	Can You Spare A Square? photo by Shane Gerardo Waltham Daily News Tribune © GateHouse Media, Inc. Photo from 2007 Annual Hunt to Cure MS
05/08/07	Support Growing For Grassroots SSDI/SSI - Reform Initiative For The Chronically Disabled Medical News, Online © 2007 MediLexicon International Ltd. "Along with the Accelerated Cure Project and the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, several other organizations and individuals, have begun to garner support for this important effort."
05/02/07	MS drug makers try a new pitch: empathy By Stephen Heuser Boston Globe, Business Section, Page 1 © Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company. "Art Mellor, a multiple sclerosis patient who runs a research foundation for the disease, went through the simulator an hour after it opened..."
03/26/07	Nice Work If You Can Get It by Don Aucoin Boston Globe, Page D6 © 2007 The New York Times Company "I have an amazing team of co-workers, whom I respect and admire, and we just have an amazing program in place."
03/15/07	Karaoke King By Rick Allen The Other Paper © 2007 The Other Paper and CM Media Inc. "Luchenitser has not let his condition distract him from his goals: He continues to work full time; hes put a great deal of time and effort into helping others; and in addition to volunteering with the Accelerated Cure Project, he has big dreams for Merle."
03/09/07	Alpine couple training for MS cure By Amy Choate-Nielsen Deseret Morning News © 2007 Deseret News Publishing Company "...David Roskelley will run the Boston Marathon for the second year in a row and raise money for the Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis."
12/21/06	Shoe and tell: Women step out with fancy footwear club By Jill Radsken Boston Herald, Page 45 © Copyright by the Boston Herald and Herald Media "OShea also has grand dreams to do good with the Shoe Club. She hopes to hold a 1-mile run in high heels down Newbury Street to benefit the Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis, the nonprofit agency where she is development director."
08/11/06	Art Mellor Seeks to 'Accelerate' a Cure for MS By Scott Denne Boston Business Journal, Champions in Health Care Supplement, Page 6 © American City Business Journals, Inc. "Deciding to concentrate his efforts on finding the causes of MS, Mellor left behind his life as a software engineer..."
07/30/06	Babson athletes trek cross-country for MS By Martin Pave Boston Globe, Sportswest © 2006 The New York Times Company "I have a close family friend who was diagnosed with MS, and it made sense to me and to all of us to team up with the Accelerated Cure Project..."
07/21/06	Riding For A Cure By Tom Wilcox Canton Journal © GateHouse Media and Herald Interactive, Inc. " Murphy and Sullivan were moved by Debbie's story and empathized with the fact that MS can strike any strong and healthy person, like themselves, and the people around them. It was after that class that the duo decided that they wanted to help in any way that they could."
07/11/06	Patients With Rare Diseases Work to Jump-Start Research By Amy Dockser Marcus Wall Street Journal, Page D1 © Dow Jones & Company, Inc. "Running a bank can be an expensive proposition. The Accelerated Cure Project for MS Repository says it will cost $2.5 million to collect the first 1,000 samples of blood and clinical data from people with multiple sclerosis and matched controls."
07/03/06	FIGHTING MS: Hail, dogs and pizza: Tales from a cross-country ride By ROBERT SEARS Patriot Ledger © 2006 The Patriot Ledger "Four young men from the South Shore, Cape Cod and Maine have been bicycling and blogging their way across the country to fight multiple clerosis."
06/24/06	Fund-raising bike trek rolls into city today By April Diodato The Observer, Page 1 © 2006, The OBSERVER "Their journey is called MS Pedal to the Metal - a multi-state bicycle ride from their hometown of Chicago to the Boston office of Accelerated Cure Project..."
06/19/06	Researchers Are Admonished To Stay Focused By Rick Mullin Chemical & Engineering News, Volume 84, Number 25 pp. 42-43 © 2006 American Chemical Society "...Mellor says what he first recognized upon investigating the state of research on MS was the lack of a central plan..."
06/06/06	Biogen Idec gets OK to resume sale of MS drug By Jeffrey Krasner Boston Globe, Page 1 © Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company "Art Mellor...said, ``It's great to have another choice for people with MS, especially one that had results this good in terms of modifying the disease."
06/04/06	Boston ride benefits MS research The Star, DIMENSIONS section "MS Pedal to the Metal is a 1,000-mile bicycle ride from Chicago to the Boston area to benefit the Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis."
05/02/06	Alpine man runs for a reason By Amy Choate Deseret Morning News © Deseret News Publishing Company "David Roskelley's approach to running the Boston Marathon sounds a lot like advice for dealing with life's difficulties."
03/23/06	FDA cites concerns on monitoring drug's safety By Jeffrey Krasner Boston Globe, Business section D8 © Copyright 2006 Globe Newspaper Company "A delay is bad," said Art Mellor..."But it would be much worse if Tysabri came back, and they weren't able to monitor for something, and the drug got pulled again. If it gets pulled again, it's never coming back."
11/11/05	Get a haircut, help fight MS by Bill Fonda The Cape Codder © CNC and Herald Interactive Advertising Systems, Inc. "On Friday, Nov. 18, [Peggy Rochette] will [be] donating half the salon's proceeds from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to the Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis, a Boston-based nonprofit organization."
10/20/05	Biogen confident on Tysabri By Jeffrey Krasner Boston Globe, Business section © Copyright 2005 Globe Newspaper Company "Biogen Idec Inc.'s chief executive, James C. Mullen, said he expects the Food and Drug Administration to rule by June 30, 2006, on the company's application to restart sales of its multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri."
10/15/05	Head of MS cure project to speak in Ithaca Tuesday By Anne Ju Ithaca Journal © Copyright 1997-2003 Omniture, Inc. "Through a support group Phelps started locally for families stricken by MS, Phelps has invited Mellor to Ithaca to talk about his company, the Accelerated Cure Project..."
08/10/05	Safety review boosts hopes for return of MS drug By Jeffrey Krasner Boston Globe, Biotechnology section © Copyright 2005 Globe Newspaper Company "Biogen Idec Inc. said yesterday it screened patients who took the multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri and didn't find any new cases of the rare brain disease that led the company to pull it off the market"
03/01/05	Biogen calls halt to its MS drug By Jeffrey Krasner Boston Globe, Page 1 © Copyright 2005 Globe Newspaper Company "Another unidentified patient is believed to be infected with the virus, Biogen Idec officials said."
01/12/05	Mass High Tech names 2005 Women to Watch Editor Jim Malone Mass High Tech © Copyright 2005 Mass High Tech Mass High Tech honors 10 women each year for their leadership and creativity in New England Technology companies. Hollie Schmidt was among the honorees for 2005.
01/12/05	Hancock grant spurs Boston Cure national launch, name change By Naomi R. Kooker Boston Business Journal (online) © 2005 American City Business Journals Inc. (also mentioned in the Lexington Minuteman and Arlington Advocate) "A local nonprofit working to cure multiple sclerosis has landed a partnership with Boston insurer John Hancock that will help it launch nationally."
06/04/04	Searching for a Cure: Boston Cure Project Implements MatchPoint By Kinley Levack www.EContentmag.com?ArticleID=6612 © 1998-2004 EContentmag.com - All Rights Reserved "A serendipitous result of the vast amount of information now available on the Internet is that it can be sifted and used by organizations for the betterment of the general population."
06/01/04	Taking on MS: A War on Multiple Fronts by Jennifer Huget Washington Post, Page HE05 © 2004 The Washington Post Company "MS experts don't always agree on what is most newsworthy, though their assessments often overlap. Three such experts...helped compile this list of the past year's key developments."
05/01/04	Lucky Magazine, Page 266 Our "Hunt to Cure MS" Scavenger Hunt was featured as one of the ways to support MS research.
04/01/04	Mapping a Cure By Elizabeth Durant Technology Review, MIT Supplement, Page 15 © Copyright 2004 Technology Review, Inc. "In January 2001 he teamed up with his neurologist, Tim Vartanian, director of the Center for Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, to found Boston Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis. Mellor set up shop in an old gas station, which a friend was renting to store his race cars and run a consulting business."
10/01/03	The Nonprofit Motive By David Whitford Fortune Small Business, Page 88 © Copyright 2003 Time Inc. "What happens when a focused, ambitious entrepreneur is diagnosed with a crippling disease? Art Mellor started a company whose mission is to cure Art Mellor."
09/04/03	A Role Model for Living with MS By David Brusie Acton Beacon, Front Page © Copyright of CNC and Herald Interactive Advertising Systems, Inc. "When incoming Acton-Boxborough senior Anna Peabody learned two years ago she had multiple sclerosis, she was more than a bit surprised. She has turned her disease, however, into both a manageable way of life and a motivation to help future generations..."
08/13/03	Orphan Drugs: For Love or Money? By Wendy Wolfson Bio-IT World, page 29 © 2002-2003 Bio-IT World Inc. "Mellor is one of a coterie of entrepreneurs transferring expertise from the private sector to speed cures for orphan diseases - unattractive markets for drug companies. "The government is not going to solve this problem," he says..."
07/26/03	When Nonprofits Get Sharp Elbows By Naomi Aoki Boston Globe, section C1 © 2003 The New York Times Company "Janelle Hamilton's motives were pure and simple: A hairdresser in Norfolk, Va., all she wanted to do was host a cut-a-thon to raise money for multiple sclerosis... To promote the event, which takes place tomorrow, they came up with the catch phrase ''Cuts for a Cure.'' But when they began advertising, they received a letter from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. It asked that they refrain from using ''Cuts for a Cure'' or any ''For the Cure'' phrases similar to those used by Komen..."
01/26/03	A Diagnosis Kindles An Entrepreneurial Spirit By Martha E. Mangelsdorf Boston Globe, Boston Works front page © 2003 The New York Times Company "Career transition: After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Mellor cofounded a nonprofit focused on organizing efforts to cure the disease. What he used to do: Mellor was chief technology officer of Gold Wire Technology Inc., a firm he cofounded in 1997..."
04/22/02	Mapping a Cure: Emerging disease-specific research efforts chart an unconventional course by David Holtzman Physician's Weekly, April 22, 2002 © Physicians Weekly, LLC "The Cure Project is reviewing the MS literature as it applies to each root cause category, and using the results to determine "promising areas of research and how to address them." The determination will constitute what he calls the "Cure Map," a road map of research projects designed to discover MS's cause."
11/02/01	A Voice of Reason About MS Boston Globe, Living\|Arts section C4 © 2001 The New York Times Company David Lander mentioned our kick-off event that he was speaking at.