Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies Archives

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Lupus Research Alliance Honors Carola Vinuesa, MD, PhD, for Discovering a Specific Gene Variant that Causes Lupus in Some Patients

NEW YORK, NY – June 22, 2023 – The Lupus Research Alliance awarded its 2023 Lupus Insight Prize to Carola Vinuesa, MD, PhD, of The Francis Crick Institute, for her seminal discovery that a mutation in a specific human gene causes systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), uncovering an important target for the development of novel treatment. […] Read More

18th Annual Meeting of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS 2018)

March 31, 2018 Attend the 18th Annual Meeting of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS 2018) June 20-23 in San Francisco. First held in 2001, the FOCIS Annual Meeting draws the best clinician scientists from around the world to participate in the scientific program, bringing together cutting-edge science from various disease fields related to […] Read More

LRA-Funded Researchers Present Cutting-Edge Science at FOCIS

July 11, 2019 The annual meeting of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) is the key forum for translational immunology. The Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) is proud to co-sponsor this meeting, which allows researchers and clinicians to share knowledge across disease borders and to chart the path to the next major breakthroughs in disease […] Read More

Skin Molecules Promote Cutaneous Lupus

June 24, 2019 Patients with cutaneous lupus develop rashes because immune cells move into the skin and cause inflammation. With a Target Identification in Lupus (TIL) grant from the Lupus Research Alliance, Dr. Jillian Richmond of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and colleagues found what lures the immune cells into the skin of people […] Read More