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Professor Eric Morand and Professor Rangi Kandane-Rathnayake discuss the therapeutic strategies and emerging treatments in SLE and LN. This podcast provides a valuable framework for guiding therapeutic decisions for rare SLE manifestations where the available recommendations might be insufficient or inapplicable. The efficacy, PK and safety of iscalimab versus placebo as add-on to SoC therapy in p...

Join Professor Brad Rovin for an expert-led discussion focused on emerging therapies and renal outcomes in LN. This podcast will provide an overview of the effect of long-term voclosporin treatment on renal histology in patients with active LN with repeat renal biopsies, and explore how BCMA-targeted CAR T-cell therapy can effectively induce disease remission in refractory LN. If you are intereste...

Join Professors Ed Vital and Maria Dall’Era, and Doctor Guillermo J. Pons-Estel for an expert-led discussion focusing on the latest ACR 2025 SLE Guidelines. This podcast provides an overview of the latest treatment recommendations, as well as ungraded, consensus-based good practice statements that are applicable to children and adults with SLE. If you are interested in the paper discussed, head on...

Join Professors Ed Vital and Michelle Kahlenberg as they delve into the role of the cGAS pathway in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). This engaging discussion covers the pathway’s relevance in disease, recent clinical trial updates on cGAS inhibitors, and their potential role in the future treatment of SLE.

Join Professor Ed Vital, and Doctors Reuben Benjamin, Chris Wincup, and Marc Scherlinger on the Lupus Forum in their discussion on the recent webinar “CAR-T and CAR-NK therapies: Are they the future of lupus treatment?”. Watch them discuss key highlights from the webinar including the potential of CAR-T and CAR-NK therapies as transformative treatments for lupus. Highlighting the mechanisms, appli...

Join Professors Ed Vital and Chris Edwards as they review their highlights of the recent EULAR 2025 congress, watch them discuss their abstracts and highlight key information.

Join Professor Ed Vital as he summarises his top abstracts, posters, and presentations from Day 4 of EULAR 2025 (Saturday, June 14).

Join Professor Ed Vital as he summarises his top abstracts, posters, and presentations from Day 3 of EULAR 2025 (Friday, June 13).

Our Steering Committee Member Professor Maria Dall’Era is joined by Professor Vibeke Strand in the latest Lupus Forum podcast. Together they discuss the efficacy of belimumab treatment in patients with SLE. They will also discuss the impact of long-term anifrolumab treatment on patients’ perceived health status and health-related quality of life. If you are interested in the papers discussed, head...

Join Professor Ed Vital as he summarises his top abstracts, posters, and presentations from Day 2 of EULAR 2025 (Thursday, June 12).

EULAR 2025 Highlights: Day 1 by The Lupus Forum

Join Professors Ed Vital and Chris Edwards as they preview what they are most looking forward to this EULAR, introducing some of the top abstracts and posters we’ve chosen so that you can better plan your time at what will be a busy and exciting congress.

Join Professors Ed Vital, Cynthia Aranow, Richard Furie, and Chris Edwards as they discuss the role of the JAK-STAT pathway, the emerging evidence of using JAK Inhibitors in clinical trials (SLEek trial), and the need for long-term data and the challenges faced.

Join Professors Liz Lightstone and Maria Dall’Era for an expert-led discussion focused on lupus nephritis, exploring its current standard of care, practical implementation in clinical settings, and evolving treatment landscape. This podcast will delve into the latest advances in the management of lupus nephritis, including emerging therapies such as obinutuzumab, and examine the future treatment p...

Join Professors Ed Vital, Brad Rovin, Liz Lightstone, and Maria Dall'Era as they review the current standard of care, the recommended guidelines, and emerging therapies in lupus nephritis. With discussions outlining strategies to improve real-world challenges in the management and overall quality of life for these patients.

Discussing Lupus: Insights into belimumab and telitacicept in SLE by The Lupus Forum

Our Steering Committee experts Professor Victoria Werth and Chris Edwards join the latest Lupus Forum podcast to discuss the effect of belimumab vs placebo on mucocutaneous manifestations of SLE, and the long-term impact of anifrolumab vs placebo on LLDAS and DORIS attainment in patients with SLE. If you are interested in the papers discussed, head on over to the Lupus Forum today! Download our la...

Advances in SLE: Highlights Podcast by The Lupus Forum

Discussing Lupus: Belimumab vs telitacicept post-rituximab, efficacy & safety of obinutuzumab in LN by The Lupus Forum

Challenges in Lupus Nephritis Highlights Podcast by The Lupus Forum

Professor Vibeke Stand (Stanford University) and Professor Eric Morand (Monash University) join the latest Lupus Forum podcast to discuss LLDAS and remission in SLE patients with HDAS, as well as the latest APLAR treatment consensus for LN.. If you are interested in the papers discussed, head on over to the Lupus Forum today! Download our latest slide decks and stay up to date with our monthly pod...

Steering Committee member Professor Maria Dall’Era, Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at the of University of California, San Francisco, USA, is joined by fellow member Professor Brad Rovin, who is Lee A. Hebert Professor of Nephrology and Medical Director at Ohio State University Clinical Research Management Institute, Columbus, Ohio, on the latest Lupus Forum podcas...

Lupus at ACR 2024: Review Podcast by The Lupus Forum

Steering Committee member Professor Victoria Werth, who is Chief of the Division of Dermatology at the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Hospital, Pennsylvania, USA, is joined by fellow member Professor Chi-Chiu Mok, who is Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Tuen Mun Hospital, Hong Kong, on the latest Lupus Forum podcast. Together, they discuss the efficacy and safet...

Lupus at ACR 2024: Preview Podcast by The Lupus Forum