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Tag: lupus research alliance

Overcoming Challenges to Lupus Management

January 24, 2019 A recent review article in Lupus Science & Medicine provides a valuable overview of the “10 most important contemporary challenges in the management of SLE” according to a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, pharmacists and researchers from several clinics and patient organizations in France.  Their top 10 challenges include several critical factors that the […] Read More

Promising Results from AMP

October 30, 2018 The Lupus Research Alliance is one of the sponsors of the Accelerating Medicines Partnership in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lupus (AMP RA/Lupus), a public-private partnership between the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and several pharmaceutical companies and nonprofit organizations.  AMP aims to speed the development of new therapies, […] Read More

New Study Partly Funded by LRA Reveals Novel Lupus Drug Targets

NEW YORK, NY – May 29. Researchers partly funded by the Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) have found possible new targets for drugs to treat lupus after snapping the first close-up of a molecule that promotes inflammation. The molecule that Target Identification in Lupus (TIL) grant recipient Dr. Roger Greenberg at University of Pennsylvania and Dr. […] 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 Board Member Brenda Blackmon Honored by Caribbean Tourism Organization

May 16, 2019 We are proud to share that Brenda Blackmon, an active member of our Board of Directors, was named “Distinguished Friend of the Caribbean” by the Caribbean Tourism Organization. The award will be given at the Caribbean Tourism Industry Awards gala June 6  at the Wyndham New Yorker (481 Eighth Avenue) during Caribbean […] Read More

Introducing Gary Koretzky, MD, PhD, New Scientific Advisory Board Co-Chair

May 10, 2019 We are so fortunate to welcome Dr. Gary Koretzky as the new Co-chair partnering with Dr. Mary Crow in leading the Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) Scientific Advisory Board.  As Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and Vice Provost for Academic Integration of Cornell University, Dr. Koretzky creates and implements initiatives that […] Read More
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