May 1, 2019 The Lupus Research Alliance is honored to serve the lupus community as the global leader in lupus research, both in the resources we deploy and the results we deliver. Collectively we have invested more than $200 million in over 500 grants selected by a multi-level peer review process led by world-class luminaries […] READ MORE
NEW YORK, NY. April 29. Lupus can harm many organs in the body, including the kidneys. A new study led by Dr. Hans Haecker of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis found that the cells that provoke kidney damage are different than those that injure other organs. In part funded by a grant from […] READ MORE
April 29, 2019 Pregnant women with lupus are more likely to suffer complications than those who don’t. Lupus Research Alliance Scientific Advisory Board members Dr. Virginia Pascual, Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine; and Dr. Jane Salmon, Collette Kean Research Professor at Hospital for Special Surgery, and their colleagues asked if testing the blood, of pregnant […] READ MORE
April 26, 2019 We are very pleased to share news from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) that intravenous Benlysta (belimumab) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat children with lupus who are five years old or above. The approval was based on data from the ‘PLUTO’ study testing over one year the effectiveness and […] READ MORE
April 24, 2019 The pharmaceutical company Exagen, Inc. announced study results showing that a component of their AVISE SLE Monitor test, the biomarker PC4d, can assess risk for thrombosis – a blood clot in the blood vessels. Study author Dr. Michelle Petri, Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Director […] READ MORE
NEW YORK (May 6, 2019) — The Lupus Research Alliance is proud to partner with former New York Jets offensive lineman Willie Colon for the fifth annual Willie Colon Charity Golf Outing crafted by Tito’s Handmade Vodka. The event raises hundreds of thousands of dollars to support a lupus research grant named in honor of Mr. […] READ MORE
April 22, 2019 Results of a study published in Arthritis & Rheumatology shows that end-stage renal disease and mortality due to lupus nephritis is down from 2010-2014. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School extended an analysis done in 1995 through 2006. Using the national registry of patients […] READ MORE
April 22, 2019 A study published in JCI Insight by researchers at University of Michigan Medical School suggests that the reason why women are more prone to autoimmune diseases than men may lie in excess levels of a protein VGLL3 in skin cells. Their study discovered that “too much VGLL3 in skin cells pushes the […] READ MORE
April 18, 2019 A large international study has probed the causes of lupus-related psychosis—a serious condition marked by delusions and hallucinations. Dr. John Hanly and his co-authors at research centers across several continents found that lupus psychosis (LP) is quite rare, affecting only 1.5 percent of people with lupus. They also observed that the condition […] READ MORE
April 18, 2019 A 20-year study of women with lupus has found strong evidence that depression increases a person’s risk of developing lupus. That insight casts doubt on the generally accepted belief that depression is simply a by-product of having lupus. If depression is the chicken and lupus is the egg, the researchers found that […] READ MORE
April 18, 2019 According to Henry Ford, “Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.” Just the opposite says Clinical Specialist Exercise Physiologist Heather Milton, MS, RCEP, CSCS at NYU Langone Medical Center Sports Performance Center. Presenting at the Lupus Lifestyle Series sponsored […] READ MORE
April 12, 2019 We are pleased to share that 12 new research grants were just awarded by the Lupus Research Program (LRP) within the Department of Defense! The $5 million allocated by Congress will continue to support promising research to help improve lupus treatment. The response from researchers to this grant opportunity was tremendous — […] READ MORE
