Toni Braxton is hoping to strike a chord with people with lupus via Aurinia Pharmaceuticals‘ “Get Uncomfortable” campaign: the singer-songwriter wants to empower fellow patients to prioritize kidney health as a key part of their care. Braxton, a Grammy Award-winning singer, and an actress, producer, and entrepreneur, was…
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has allowed Aurinia Pharmaceuticals submit a new patented method of using Lupkynis (voclosporin), its approved oral treatment for lupus nephritis. The new application (No. 17/713,140), titled, “Improved Protocol for Treatment of Lupus Nephritis,” covers a method of using Lupkynis in combination with…
Lupkynis (voclosporin) has been approved in Great Britain as a treatment for adults with active lupus nephritis by the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Aurinia Pharmaceuticals, the therapy’s developer, announced. The MHRA’s approval came just a few months after the European Commission approved Lupkynis…
Adding the experimental oral therapy voclosporin to standard treatment is safe, and its use more than doubles complete kidney responses in people with lupus nephritis, results from the Phase 3 AURORA study show. Aurinia Pharmaceuticals, the company developing voclosporin, plans to finish its rolling application to the U.S. Food…
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals announced the start of a rolling submission of its application requesting that voclosporin be approved in the U.S. to treat people with lupus nephritis. In a rolling submission, completed portions of a New Drug Application (NDA) are submitted for review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals is again partnering with the National Kidney Foundation (NFK) during National Kidney Month to raise awareness of lupus nephritis (LN) — a type of kidney disease caused by systemic lupus erythematosus, or lupus. A new program launched by Aurinia, called ALL IN, is an online…
Adding the experimental oral therapy voclosporin to standard-of-care treatment is safe and nearly doubles the proportion of complete kidney responses in people with lupus nephritis, according to top-line data from a Phase 3 study. Aurinia Pharmaceuticals, the company developing voclosporin, hopes to make the treatment available to…
A Phase 3 trial assessing the potential of voclosporin as an add-on to standard treatment for people with lupus nephritis has completed patient visits. “With the completion of patient visits in the AURORA study, we now look forward to reporting out the efficacy and safety results by the…
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is issuing a new patent to Aurinia Pharmaceuticals covering a method of use and dosing protocol of the immunosuppressant voclosporin in patients with lupus nephritis. The patent (No. 15/835,219), titled “Protocol for Treatment of Lupus Nephritis” covers an individualized treatment protocol where…
The addition of low-dose voclosporin to standard therapy led to significantly greater remission but a higher incidence of adverse events in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients with active lupus nephritis, according to a Phase 2 clinical trial. Findings from the trial were published in the study, “…