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Lupus Research Alliance Awards Lupus Insight Prize to Two Trailblazers in CAR T Cell Therapy

San Francisco, CA- June 20. The Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) announced the recipients of the 2024 Lupus Insight Prize to Marko Radic, Ph.D., The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and Georg Schett, M.D., Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, for their groundbreaking discoveries in utilizing CAR T cell therapy to potentially revolutionize lupus treatment. Drs. Radic and Schett […] Read More

Reducing B Cells with Modified CAR T Cells is an Effective Treatment of Experimental Lupus: Shows Study Supported by Lupus Research Alliance

NEW YORK, NY. March 6, 2019. Depleting the number of harmful B cells with a novel immunotherapy that employs modified T cells may offer an effective strategy to treat lupus, according to a new study funded by the Lupus Research Alliance. These findings offer a renewed optimism for the elimination of B cells to provide […] Read More

CAR T Cell Therapy Induces Lupus Remission in Small Study

September 21, 2022 Results of a small study published in the prestigious journal Nature Medicine, suggest that a type of immune cell therapy called chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy could become a highly effective therapy for SLE patients who do not respond to current lupus treatments. CD19 CAR T cells are T cells that […] Read More

LRA Celebrates Major Research Breakthroughs in 2019

January 7, 2020 2019 was a phenomenal, breakthrough year for lupus research on both the clinical development and basic science fronts. The Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) is incredibly proud that every new discovery leading to a brand new medicine for lupus had its origin in work funded by LRA years ago. The past 12 months delivered many […] Read More