The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) will use a three-year federal grant — worth up to $500,000 per year — to continue efforts to increase the number of Black lupus patients in the U.S. who participate in clinical trials. The grant, which runs from September 2023 to September…
This year’s winners of the Lupus Foundation of America‘s Gary S. Gilkeson Career Development Award — designed to support early career scientists working on lupus research — will focus their work on areas key to patients with the autoimmune disease: pregnancy and personalized medicine. Both winners are from…
The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) has launched a free mobile application, or app, for its virtual Strategies to Embrace Living with Lupus Fearlessly self-care program — dubbed SELF — for adults in the U.S. with the chronic autoimmune disorder. The SELF program, available online, offers tips…
A Canadian researcher will use a newly granted Lupus Canada Catalyst Award — with one year of funding totaling $40,000 CAD (around $29,300) — for a study focused on better understanding the role of an inflammation marker in predicting treatment responses in people with lupus nephritis. Lupus nephritis is one…
To raise money to battle lupus and increase awareness about the chronic autoimmune disorder, Allsup, which provides Social Security disability assistance, is again supporting the Lupus Foundation of America’s (LFA) annual Walk to End Lupus Now in St. Louis. Registration is required for the in-person event, set…
The Lupus Foundation of America has announced this year’s winners of the Gina M. Finzi Memorial Student Summer Fellowship Program, designed to support students working in lupus research. Each award, worth $4,000, includes mentorship by an experienced researcher in the field of lupus. Winners, all young scientists, are pursuing…
The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) has launched a new awareness campaign to help Black/African American and Hispanic/Latina women recognize the signs and symptoms of lupus. Dubbed “Be Fierce. Take Control,” the digital awareness campaign especially aims to reach young, undiagnosed women among this population, among whom…
The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) is calling on the community to help increase visibility and promote education about the autoimmune disease throughout the month of May — thereby marking Lupus Awareness Month. “All too often people with lupus hear that they don’t ‘look’ sick. This is why…
The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) has honored scientists Eric Morand and Joyce Chang for notable contributions to lupus research. Morand, PhD, of Monash University received the Evelyn V. Hess Award, and Chang, MD, of Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, was honored with the Mary Betty…
The Lupus Foundation of America and Lupus Canada are funding a new study to better understand the role of platelets in lupus. The Lupus Canada Catalyst Award, a one-year grant to fund research for a scientist in Canada studying the autoimmune disease, was awarded to Éric Boilard,…