ACR Highlights… ACR Convergence Highlights 2023 – Basic Research I: Genetics, cartilage/synovium, osteoimmunology, animal models 9 Dec 20239 Dec 2023 Author: Rami Bechara Hou et al. (0733) utilised CRISPR/Cas9 technology to identify cell type-specific functional variants that regulate the Type I interferon pathway in lupus. Notably, they discovered the negative regulatory effect…
Basic and Translational Research I… [EULAR HL 2023] Basic and Translational Research I 20 Jun 2023 Author: Giacomo Cafaro Borrego-Yaniz et al (OP0102) performed a genome-wide association study in a cohort of 3,498 giant cell arteritis patients and identified three new loci associated with the disease:…
Basic and Translational Research I… [EULAR HL 2023] Basic and Translational Research II 20 Jun 2023 Author: Ertugrul Cagri Bolek Dürholz et al (POS0002) investigated proinflammatory effects of microbiota-derived mediators on synovial inflammation through metabolites such as short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) on mice model with collagen-…
Basic and Translational Research I… Basic and Translational Research I 29 May 202330 May 2023 Aggelos Banos Aggelos is a rheumatology resident physician and a junior researcher at Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens. His major research interests include SLE and vasculitides (clinical aspects, outcomes,…
Basic Research Basic and Translational Research II 29 May 202330 May 2023 Morten Aagaard Nielsen Morten Aagaard Nielsen, MD, Ph.D., Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. His work primarily focuses on investigating the role of inflammatory fibroblasts, sucker-binding proteins and immune…
Basic Research [ACR22] Basic Research 29 Nov 20226 Dec 2022 Author: Silvia Piantoni Izuka et al (0586) proposed a new approach of classification of the systemic immune-mediated diseases based on the associated immune cells, detected by flow cytometry. They have…