LRA Awards 2025 Lupus Insight Prize to Dr. Deepak Rao for Uncovering Key Drivers of Immune Imbalance in Lupus
The Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) proudly awarded the 2025 Lupus Insight Prize today to highly respected immunologist Deepak Rao,...
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Gut Bacteria May Hold the Key to New Lupus Treatments
Exciting research partially funded by the Lupus Research Alliance uncovers how gut bacteria may trigger autoimmune responses in lupus patients...
Highlights from ACR Convergence 2024: Groundbreaking LRA-Funded Research and Innovative Therapies
The Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) is proud to showcase the groundbreaking work of its funded researchers presented at the...
Groundbreaking Study Funded in Part by LRA Sheds Light on Unconventional Cause of Inflammation in Lupus
A groundbreaking study partly funded by the Lupus Research Alliance (LRA), published in Immunity, uncovered an unexpected contributor to...
Researchers Discover How Gut Bacteria Can Trigger Autoimmunity
August 4, 2022
Immunologists have found that a certain gut bacteria escapes from the intestines to trigger inflammation that can...
Helping Overcome Lupus Effects on Mental Health
Updated March 11, 2022
Neuropsychiatric lupus affects 80-90% of people with lupus. In a video series hosted by the Young...
LRA-Supported Researcher Finds Similarity between COVID-19 and Lupus Flares
October 21, 2020
In a recent study published in Nature Immunology, LRA Lupus Insight Prize recipient Dr. Ignacio Sanz and colleagues found that the immune response in patients hospitalized...
The Lupus Research Alliance Presents 2020 Lupus Insight Prize Recipient – Dr. Jane Salmon
New York, NY. September 25, 2020 -- The Lupus Research Alliance presented its 2020 Lupus Insight Prize to Jane...
2018 LRA Lupus Insight Prize Recipient Receives $15 M Grant from NIH to Study Lupus Effects on the Brain
July 27, 2020
The Lupus Research Alliance congratulates 2018 Lupus Insight Prize recipient Betty Diamond, MD and the Feinstein Institutes...
2019 Lupus Insight Prize Awarded to Ignacio Sanz, MD
Thinking outside the box” is jargon that often rings hollow—but not so when it’s used to describe the ideas...
New Research Identifies a Key to Neuropsychiatric Lupus
August 12, 2019
A specific antibody target has been identified as causing neuropsychiatric symptoms of lupus, according to a study...
LRA’s 2019 Lupus Insight Prize Awarded to Dr. Ignacio Sanz
Boston, MA. June 19, 2019. The Lupus Research Alliance has awarded its 2019 Lupus Insight Prize to Ignacio Sanz,...