A therapy that XTL Biopharmaceuticals is developing for autoimmune diseases significantly reduced the expression of several cell signaling molecules called cytokines that play a role in the development of Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) associated with lupus, the company reported. The news came in a press release updating XTL’s efforts to develop hCDR1 for systemic…
Nektar Therapeutics dosed the first patient in its Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating NKTR-358 as a treatment for inflammatory and autoimmune disorders such as lupus. NKTR-358 is designed to correct the underlying immune system dysfunction shared by several autoimmune diseases. The drug candidate selectively stimulates the growth and activation of…
The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) has unveiled its new National Resource Center on Lupus, a one-stop online resource for topics related to lupus. The content of the new resource center is based on the results from the LFA’s National Needs Assessment on Lupus, a survey conducted…
Canada’s Aurinia Pharmaceuticals will report positive results from its 48-week AURION clinical trial evaluating voclosporin for lupus nephritis (LN) treatment. The presentation will take place at the 12th International Congress on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (LUPUS 2017) & the 7th Asian Congress on Autoimmunity (ACA 2017), to be held March 26-29 in Melbourne,…
The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) has received the 2017 Paul G. Rogers Distinguished Organization Advocacy Award from Research!America for advancing research, education, support and advocacy programs for lupus. The Rogers Award series recognizes public or private organizations that advocate for medical or health research at…
Two years ago the Paleo Diet was the diet everyone was talking about. I remember going to a New Years Eve party and they served paleo chili with cauliflower. It may sound very Californian, but it was honestly the best chili I ever had. I remember…
Actress, singer, and celebrity Selena Gomez, who came forward about her own struggles with lupus in 2015, has made a donation to the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) to support new lupus research. While Gomez has been an important voice for the cause,…
Neovacs will present an update on the company’s interferon alpha (IFNα) Kinoid vaccine program for lupus, dermatomyositis and type 1 diabetes at the upcoming 2017 Keystone Symposia Conference taking place in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Géraldine Grouard-Vogel, PhD, the company’s chief scientific officer, is set to give the  presentation — “Overexpression of IFNalpha…
About 54 million Americans have been diagnosed with arthritis — a debilitating joint disease that takes many forms including lupus and rheumatoid arthritis — and 24 million are disabled by some sort of the disease. That means one in four Americans is living with the disease today, up 20 percent since 2002,…
Voclosporin has met complete and partial remission endpoints in a clinical trial in patients with lupus nephritis (LN), said Canada’s Aurinia Pharmaceuticals. AURA-LV was a randomized, controlled double-blind Phase 2b clinical trial (NCT02141672) that compared the efficacy and safety of voclosporin with placebo in achieving remission in patients with LN, one of…