Remember During Men’s Health Month that Men Get Lupus Too
June 20, 2019 Michael Lauria knows only too well that lupus is not just a woman’s disease – he was diagnosed in the prime of his life – when he was just 32 years old. And he is counting on the Lupus Research Alliance to find the answers that will change his life. Young, fit, […]
LRA President Ken Farber Launches Lift Up Lupus for Awareness Month
May 1, 2021 Dear Friends, 2020 will forever be remembered as the year of COVID-19 with much sacrifice by all of us. Yet in many ways, it has also been a banner year for people with lupus. We have seen a true renaissance in research with significant breakthroughs and major new treatment advances. After a decade with only one treatment for lupus approved in half a century, we recently saw the approval of […]
Lupus Kidney Inflammation May Have Different Cause Than Commonly Believed
NEW YORK, NY. April 29. Lupus can harm many organs in the body, including the kidneys. A new study led by Dr. Hans Haecker of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis found that the cells that provoke kidney damage are different than those that injure other organs. In part funded by a grant from […]
Lupus Therapeutics Shifting the Paradigm
The Lupus Research Alliance (LRA)—going bold and thinking big—has once again shifted the status quo of lupus research by becoming the first and only lupus organization to conduct its own clinical trials. How did we achieve what once seemed unobtainable? We created Lupus Therapeutics (an LRA affiliated organization) and since the program started in 2017, […]
A 1-2 Punch Approach To Treating Lupus
The challenge of finding more effective treatments for lupus-according to Dr. Fabienne Mackay, PhD-lies in the nature of the disease itself. “Lupus is not one disease, but rather a set of syndromes in which no one treatment will work for all,” she explains. With the objective to develop treatments that target the underlying disease pathways […]
Our Grantees Lead Investigation of Microbiome in Lupus
Sept. 5, 2018 Our microbiome includes all of the trillions of microorganisms that live in and on us. A recent review article about key discoveries on the role of the microbiome in lupus includes two researchers funded by the Lupus Research Alliance who may have discovered how some of these microbial passengers promote lupus by […]
World Lupus Day Q&A with Selena Gomez
Q: Why is this year’s World Lupus Day so meaningful to you? A: World Lupus Day is the moment when two causes I passionately support – lupus research and mental health awareness – intersect. LRA’s Lift Up Lupus campaign raises awareness of a little-understood disease and lets those of us who live with lupus know […]
Update from LRA’s President on COVID-19 Vaccines in Lupus
January 14, 2020 Dear Friends, Happy New Year! On behalf of all of us at the Lupus Research Alliance (LRA), thank you so much for your kindness and generosity in 2020 and prior years. 2021 starts off with some exciting milestones for the lupus community including a new treatment for lupus nephritis. But Recently, our […]
Important Message from CEO Kenneth Farber: U.S. FDA Approves New Lupus Treatment
August 2, 2021 Dear Friend of the Lupus Research Alliance, As we reported this morning, the lupus community has much to celebrate with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of anifrolumab-fnia (brand name, Saphnelo™). As a first-in-class and only new treatment for systemic lupus erythematosus in a decade, this approval marks a major […]
The LRA’s Forum for Discovery Showcases Recent Advances in Lupus Research
November 7, 2023 This October, the Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) held its annual scientific conference, Forum for Discovery, in New York City. This event serves as a pivotal gathering where LRA-funded researchers from across the globe convene to share their recent breakthroughs. Forum for Discovery serves as a catalyst, fostering interactions upon which further groundbreaking […]