LOS ANGELES , April 21, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Annette Funicello Research Fund for Neurological Disease (AFRFND) joined with the International Society of Neurovascular Diseases (ISNVD.org) in the Fall of 2014 to request proposals in clinical and basic science research into neurovascular disease emphasizing the relationship to multiple sclerosis (MS) and neurodegeneration. Numerous international submissions were judged by a scientific review panel and four grantees were announced by Society President, Professor Ziv J Haskal M.D. at the 5th annual scientific meeting of the ISNVD in Naples Italy on March 28 : Melbourne's Dr. Helen Kavnoudias, PhD : randomised, double-blinded, controlled (with sham) study of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty for extracranial vein stenoses in patients with multiple sclerosis. (Clinical angioplasty treatment trial CCSVI in MS) Buffalo's Dr. Robert Zivadinov : A case-control, 5-year follow-up study of cardiovas...