The Alliance for Children’s Therapeutics presented positive results from an early study of KPI Therapeutics/Kineta’s lead drug candidate, dalazatide, as a possible treatment for children and teenagers with lupus nephritis. The data were given at the recent European League Against Rheumatism’s 17th Annual Congress in London. A key finding was that “patients with…
Mallinckrodt PLC presented the first results from its two-part pilot study’s 44-week open label extension period, on the efficacy of H.P. Acthar Gel, a repository corticotropin injection, in persistent systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Acthar is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for flares, or for maintenance therapy, in…
Genes regulating the growth factor VEGF signaling pathway are linked to the presence of mouth ulcers in people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), according to a study presented at the European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR 2016) in London on June 10. The finding gives scientists a clue…
An associated risk between lupus and cervical cancer has recently been confirmed in a study titled “Cervical dysplasia and cervical cancer in women with rheumatoid arthritis,” presented at the EULAR Congress 2016 June 8-11 in London. Known as systemic lupus erythematosus or SLE, lupus is a condition characterized by chronic autoimmune…
Resolve Therapeutics, a biopharma developing innovative therapies for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and Sjogrens syndrome, will present new data from two clinical studies at the EULAR Annual European Congress of Rheumatology, June 8-11, in London. The company’s scientific founder Dr. Keith Elkon will deliver the oral presentation “Immune Complex Bound…