Author Archives: Margarida Maia

Lupus Research Alliance gives awards to 5 minority researchers

The Lupus Research Alliance has named the winners of this year’s Awards to Promote Diversity in Lupus Research, all from underrepresented minority groups who are interested in studying lupus. Four researchers were selected to receive a Career Development Award, which provides up to $600,000 over four years to…

Trethera wins grant to develop SLE treatment candidate TRE-515

Trethera will use a $0.6 million Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant to advance TRE-515, its lead candidate for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The grant comes from the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), from which the company…

Team approach to lupus care being tested at Duke Health

A new project incubating at Duke Advanced Practice Provider Leadership Institute (APPLI) seeks to foster a team approach to lupus care at Duke Health in Durham, North Carolina. The project is being led by Keisha-Gaye O’Garo, a clinical psychologist, and Karen McCain, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, both from…

Rezpeg tamps down disease activity; fails to meet ISLAND primary goal

A middle dose of rezpegaldesleukin, an experimental medicine being developed by Nektar Therapeutics, led to clinically meaningful gains in measures of disease activity in people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). That’s according to top-line data from ISLAND (NCT04433585), a Phase 2 clinical study that evaluated how safe…