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Lupus Research Alliance Announces 2019 Distinguished Innovator Awards Aimed at New Lupus Treatments

NEW YORK, October 24 — The Lupus Research Alliance proudly announces two exceptional recipients of the 2019 Dr. William E. Paul Distinguished Innovator Award in Lupus and Autoimmunity:  Fabienne Mackay, PhD, and Jeffrey Rathmell, PhD. The highly prestigious up-to-$1 million grant will allow each investigator to test promising approaches for potential new lupus treatments. Dr. Mackay […] Read More

Treat-to-Target is Feasible and Beneficial in Lupus

September 19, 2019 Treating patients with lupus until they reach specific health goals can reduce disease flares and prevent organ damage, according to a research team co-led by Professor Eric F. Morand, at Monash University in Australia and past recipient of the Distinguished Innovator Award from the Lupus Research Alliance (LRA). This study is important […] Read More

LRA-Funded Discovery May Benefit Alzheimer’s Disease

August 1, 2019 A new study by LRA Distinguished Innovator Award recipient Dr. Douglas Green of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, and colleagues may have uncovered a new way to treat Alzheimer’s disease. The research, highlighted recently in Forbes magazine and published in the journal Cell, identified one of the brain’s mechanisms […] Read More

Anti-Nuclear Antibodies May Confuse Lupus Diagnosis

Patients who may have lupus typically undergo an “ANA” test to detect anti-nuclear antibodies (ANAs). Lupus Research Alliance Distinguished Innovator Award recipient Dr. Shu Man Fu of the University of Virginia and colleagues found that people who don’t have lupus also produce ANAs. This suggests that patients can not be diagnosed with lupus just because […] Read More

Celebrate Clinical Trials Day May 20!

May 20, 2019 It’s Clinical Trials Day when the Lupus Research Alliance recognizes all the people we support who advance clinical research – scientists who identify and develop potential ways to diagnose, monitor and treat lupus,  researchers who design and conduct the studies to test these methods, and the volunteers who take part in the […] Read More

LRA Distinguished Innovator Wins 2019 Breakthrough Prize

October 17, 2018 Winner of our most substantial grant, the Dr. William E. Paul Distinguished Innovator Awards in Lupus and Autoimmunity, Dr. Zhijian “James” Chen, Professor of Molecular Biology at UT Southwestern, just gained another prestigious award for that work from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.  He also recently received the 2018 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences from the Foundation for the […] Read More

Lupus Research Alliance Announces Awards to Uncover Causes of Lupus

Two Outstanding Scientists Recognized for Transformative Lupus Research Projects Nov. 09, 2017. The Lupus Research Alliance is proud to announce the 2017 recipients of the Dr. William E. Paul Distinguished Innovator Awards in Lupus and Autoimmunity. Michael Carroll, PhD, Children’s Hospital Boston, is studying why and how lupus attacks the brain and central nervous system […] Read More

We Fund Top Scientists

April 5, 2018 Congratulations go to Dr. Zhijian ‘James’ Chen — just named the 2018 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences recipient by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. The highly prestigious award recognizes Dr. Chen’s exceptional work that the Lupus Research Alliance proudly helped fund. His discovery of an enzyme cGAS uncovered an […] Read More