Whack MS for 6! — Support Jemma Barsby and a Breakthrough MS Treatment
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Australian cricket star Jemma Barsby is stepping up to champion a cause close to her heart: helping bring to life a potential breakthrough treatment that could change the future for people living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
Jemma is supporting NeuOrphan, an Australian biotech developing Dioprotectome — a new oral therapy that has shown the potential to repair and remyelinate damaged nerve fibres and protect them from further immune attack. In animal models, this small-molecule therapy has demonstrated the ability to:
-Protect insulated nerve fibres from immune-driven damage
-Repair those fibres through remyelination
-Potentially halt or even reverse the course of MS
Despite 19 FDA-approved MS drugs, none directly repair the nerve damage that drives long-term disability. This leaves a major therapeutic gap — one Dioprotectome aims to fill.
About the Campaign: Whack MS for 6
Whack MS for 6 is a national call to action inviting Australians — especially the cricket and wider sporting community — to back this groundbreaking research by contributing $100 each and celebrating the viral 6 phenomenon.
The goal is simple and powerful:
60,000 Australians × $100 = $6 million
This will fund the manufacture of Dioprotectome and its Phase 2 human trial, bringing this promising therapy one crucial step closer to helping patients.
Why Your Support Matters
Dioprotectome represents hope not only for long-term disease change, but for real symptom relief for people living with MS — something current therapies cannot offer. For Jemma, she needs to take drugs (Gilenya) every 24-48 hours just to function, let alone crashing with chronic fatigue, dizziness, blurred vision and pins and needles after every cricket game
By supporting Jemma’s campaign, you are helping accelerate a treatment that could transform lives, giving people with MS the chance to reclaim mobility, independence, and confidence.
Join Us and Whack MS for 6!!!
Your contribution — big or small — puts us closer to a future where MS is not just managed, but repaired.
Stand with Jemma. Stand with Australians living with MS. Donate today and help us Whack MS for 6!!!
(Donors should note that donations to this fund are not tax deductible)
