robin giese & bioMS, palm desert, calif. 2.20.08
Written on September 9, 2008
what do you do if you’ve made millions in business, you find yourself retired and have been slowly watching someone you love ravaged by multiple sclerosis? well, if you’re cliff giese you look around, find someone working on a promising treatment and struggling to finance it, you step in, put your money where it can do some good and get things rolling. cliff and his brother kevin started BioMS, a company that is aggressively seeking new MS treatments, based heavily on an experimental drug called dirucotide. cliff is the CEO of the company, and his wife, robin, is a living testament to the effectiveness of the drug and what can be accomplished when wealthy people channel their resources to amazing ends.
this was shot for forbes back in february but the story just ran a couple weeks ago. my thanks to janice pikey at forbes, and to corporal bennett for his helpful assistance as usual.
Hi,
My husband Todd was dignosed with MS in 2004 and in just four years this disease has robbed us of our lives. We are trying to deal but not knowing what is to come, for the most part, is the hardest thing to work around. I was in college when Todd started falling down and now I have yet to finish because we seem to be caught in a quagmire of uncertainty. It is killing us both. We recently moved from California to Indiana where there is family but no one really wants to be bothered with us, in fact they avoid us. It has been a crushing experience because had we known that no one would care we would have stayed put. Now, going forward, we need to seek a treatment that may work to stabilize Todd. He did take Rebif three times a week for a year but it didn’t help, in fact, it made him worse. Please, if you could direct us to where Todd could get treatment of Dirucotide it would be more than appreciated…. We are lost… Thank You for your time…. Sincerely Donna