Abstracts tagged "Biologicals"

Abstract Number: 1055 • ACR Convergence 2025
The Price of Relief: Examining the Role of Insurance in High-Cost Medication Use
Antara Dattagupta¹, Colin Diffie² and Sana Cheema², ¹Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, ²Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis
Background/Purpose: High-cost biologic therapies are integral to the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), yet access to these agents may be influenced by insurance type, particularly…
Abstract Number: 0574 • ACR Convergence 2025
Bimekizumab 3-Year Efficacy In Patients With Psoriasis And Risk Factors For Progression To Psoriatic Arthritis Or Screening Positive For Psoriatic Arthritis: Long-Term Results From Five Phase 3/3b Trials
Richard G. Langley¹, Joseph F Merola², Diamant Thaçi³, Emi Nishida⁴, Bruce Strober⁵, Richard B. Warren⁶, José M. López Pinto⁷, Christina Crater⁸, Sarah Kavanagh⁸ and Paolo Gisondi⁹, ¹Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ²Department of Dermatology and Department of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ³Institute and Comprehensive Center for Inflammation Medicine, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, ⁴Nagoya City West Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan, ⁵Department of Dermatology, Yale University, New Haven, and Central Connecticut Dermatology Research, Cromwell, CT, ⁶Dermatology Centre, Northern Care Alliance, NHS Foundation Trust & Division of Musculoskeletal and Dermatological Sciences, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁷UCB, Madrid, Spain, ⁸UCB, Morrisville, NC, ⁹Section of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Background/Purpose: Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) affects up to one-third of patients with psoriasis;1 early identification and intervention for patients with psoriasis and risk factors (RFs) for…
Abstract Number: 0780 • ACR Convergence 2025
Baseline Pharmacodynamic Markers and Response to Emapalumab in Children and Adults with Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS) in Still’s Disease: Results from a Pooled Analysis of Two Prospective Trials
Edward Behrens¹, Sebastiaan Vastert², Jordi anton³, Pierre Quartier⁴, Bruno Fautrel⁵, Paul Brogan⁶, Melissa Elder⁷, Francesca Minoia⁸, Pavla Dolezalova⁹, Robert Biesen¹⁰, Masaki Shimizu¹¹, Uwe Ullmann¹², Adnan Mahmood¹³, Andrew Danquah¹², Elena Burillo¹², Marco Petrimpol¹², Steve Mallett¹⁴, Brian Jamieson¹⁵, Alexiei GROM¹⁶ and Fabrizio De Benedetti¹⁷, ¹CHOP, West Chester, PA, ²University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ³Hospital Sant Joan de Düu. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France, ⁵Sorbonne Université - APHP, Department of Rheumatology, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Inserm UMRS ¹¹³⁶-⁵, PARIS, France, Paris, France, ⁶Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom, ⁷College of Medicine and Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, GAINESVILLE, FL, ⁸Pediatric Immuno-Rheumatology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy, ⁹Paediatric Rheumatology and Autoinflammatory Diseases Unit, General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Germany, ¹¹Department of Pediatrics and Developmental Biology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan, ¹²Sobi, Basel, Switzerland, ¹³Sobi, Stockholm, Sweden, ¹⁴Sobi, Stock, Sweden, ¹⁵Sobi Inc., Morrisville, NC, ¹⁶Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati, OH, ¹⁷Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital, Rome, Rome, Italy
Background/Purpose: MAS is a life-threatening complication of Still’s disease, characterized by IFNg-driven macrophage activation and systemic hyperinflammation. Chemokine C-X-C motif ligand 9 (CXCL9) is released…
Abstract Number: 0475 • ACR Convergence 2025
Drug Discontinuation in Inflammatory Arthritis Following Mandatory Non-Medical Switching from Originator to Biosimilar in Quebec, Canada
Cristiano Moura¹, Luck Lukusa², Denis Choquette³, Gilles Boire⁴, Nathalie Carrier⁵, Autumn Neville² and Sasha Bernatsky⁶, ¹Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, Montréal, Canada, ²Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada, ³Institut de Rhumatologie de Montréal, Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm, Canada, ⁴Retired, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, ⁵Centre integré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l’Estrie – Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke (CIUSSS de l’Estrie-CHUS), Sherbrooke, Canada, ⁶Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: In April 2022, the Canadian province of Quebec introduced a mandatory non-medical switch to biosimilars for persons on bio-originators to manage healthcare costs. Our…
Abstract Number: 0014 • ACR Convergence 2025
NKX019, an allogeneic off-the-shelf CD19 targeting CAR-NK cell therapy, induces deep CD19+ B cell depletion in hematological malignancy and models of autoimmune disease
Mira Tohmé, Meriam Vejiga, Wendy Yu, Emily Kang, Katharine Yu, Jessica Sood, Ivan Chan, Kyle Hansen, David Shook and Phung Gip, Nkarta, South San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: Autologous CAR T-cell therapies have remarkable clinical activity in autoimmune disease (AD) via B-cell targeting, with many patients achieving durable, drug-free remission. However, safety…
Abstract Number: 2593 • ACR Convergence 2025
Single Switch from Reference Denosumab to TVB-009 in Women with Postmenopausal Osteoporosis: Analysis of the Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind, Multinational, Multicenter Study
Karel Pavelka¹, Frank Schneider², Deepak S³, Bracha Timan⁴, Hadas Barkay⁴ and Anton Buchner², ¹Institute of Rheumatology and Department of Rheumatology, ¹st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, ²Teva GmbH, Ulm, Germany, ³Teva Pharma India Private Limited, Bangalore, India, ⁴Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Netanya, Israel
Background/Purpose: TVB-009 is being developed as a proposed biosimilar candidate to the reference denosumab. Biosimilarity of TVB-009 to US-licensed denosumab (US-denosumab) and EU-approved denosumab was…
Abstract Number: 2447 • ACR Convergence 2025
Longitudinal Disease Activity Trajectories in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Treated with Belimumab
Fumin Qi¹, Yin Zhao², Wei Bian¹, Jian Hao¹, Na zhang¹ and Wei Wei¹, ¹Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China (People's Republic), ²Affiliated Hospital of Yunnan University, Yunnan, China (People's Republic)
Background/Purpose: To investigate the longitudinal disease activity trajectories in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) treated with belimumab.Methods: A prospective cohort of SLE treated with…
Abstract Number: 2280 • ACR Convergence 2025
Changes of B Cell Subsets During Treatment with Abatacept in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Athanasios Mavropoulos¹, Christos Liaskos², Ioannis Alexiou³, Christina Katsiari⁴, Dimitrios Bogdanos⁵ and Lazaros Sakkas⁶, ¹University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, ²University of Thessaly, Faculty of Medicine, Larisa, Greece, ³University General Hospital of larissa, Larissa, Greece, ⁴University General Hospital of Larisa, University of Thessaly Faculty of Medicine, Larisa, Greece, ⁵Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
Background/Purpose: Abatacept, an efficacious therapy for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), inhibits the interaction between CD28 on T cells and CD80/CD86 on antigen-presenting cells (APCs). The aim…
Abstract Number: 1878 • ACR Convergence 2025
Customized Therapy for SLE: How Disease Severity Influences the Use of Corticosteroids and Biologics in Patients with SLE in the Lupus Federated Data Network (LupusNet) and a US Claims Database
Ashley Orillion¹, Federico Zazzetti², Anna Sheahan³, Clair Blacketer¹, Michel van Speybroeck⁴, Sarah Gasman¹, Reyhan Sonmez⁵, Erika Noss¹, Manuel Ugarte-Gil⁶, Rocío Gamboa-Cárdenas⁷, Víctor Pimentel-Quiroz⁸, Kaleb Michaud⁹, Patti Katz¹⁰, Rangi Kandane-Rathnayake¹¹, Eric Morand¹², Worawit Louthrenoo¹³, Alberta Hoi¹⁴, Yi-Hsing Chen¹⁵, Jiacai Cho¹⁶, Laniyati Hamijoyo¹⁷, Shue Fen Luo¹⁸, Sandra Navarra¹⁹, Mandana Nikpour²⁰, José María Pego-Reigosa²¹, Iñigo Rúa-Figueroa²², Zulema Plaza²³, María Galindo-Izquierdo²⁴, Julia Martínez Barrio²⁵, Jaime Calvo²⁶, Antonio Fernández-Nebro²⁷, Raúl Menor Almagro²⁸, EVA GLORIA TOMERO MURIEL²⁹, Javier Narváez³⁰ and Chetan S. Karyekar³¹, ¹Johnson & Johnson, Spring House, PA, USA, Spring House, PA, ²Johnson & Johnson, Horsham, PA, USA, Ambler, PA, ³Johnson & Johnson, Horsham, PA, USA, Horhsam, PA, ⁴Johnson & Johnson, Beerse, Belgium, Beerse, Belgium, ⁵Capgemini Consulting, Zurich, Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland, ⁶Grupo Peruano de Estudio de Enfermedades Autoinmunes Sistémicas, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru; Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, EsSalud, Lima, Peru, Lima, Peru, ⁷Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru, ⁸Grupo Peruano de Estudio de Enfermedades Autoinmunes Sistémicas, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Perú; Rheumatology Department, Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, EsSalud, Lima, Perú, Lima, Peru, ⁹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ¹⁰UCSF, San Rafael, CA, ¹¹Center for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, ¹²Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University and Monash Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ¹³Chiang Mai University Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Chiang Mai, Thailand, ¹⁴Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University and Department of Rheumatology, Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, ¹⁵Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung, Taiwan, Taichung, Taiwan (Republic of China), ¹⁶National University Hospital, Rheumatology Division, Department of Medicine, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, ¹⁷Padjadjaran University/Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Bandung, Indonesia, Badung, Indonesia, ¹⁸Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, Department of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Taipei, Taiwan, Taoyuan, Taiwan (Republic of China), ¹⁹University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, ²⁰University of Sydney, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Department of Rheumatology, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ²¹Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital of Vigo, Vigo, Spain; IRIDIS Group (Investigation in Rheumatology and Immune-Diseases), Galicia Sur Health Research Institute, Vigo, Spain, ²²Hospital de Gran Canaria Doctor Negrin, Las Palmas GC, Spain, ²³Research Unit, Spanish Society of Rheumatology, Madrid, Spain, Madrid, Spain, ²⁴Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario ¹² de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ²⁵Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ²⁶Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Araba, School of Medicne, Universidad del País Vasco, BIOARABA Health Research Institute, Vitoria, Spain, Vitoria, Pais Vasco, Spain, ²⁷Hospital Regional Universitario de Malaga, Malaga, Spain, Malaga, Spain, ²⁸Department of Rheumatology, Hospital de Jerez, Spain, Puerto De Santa María, Spain, ²⁹Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain, ³⁰Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain, ³¹Johnson & Johnson, Spring House, PA, USA, Spring House
Background/Purpose: The management of SLE varies worldwide. Current SLE treatment goals focus on preventing flares, controlling disease activity, and preventing organ damage accrual. LupusNet is…
Abstract Number: 1536 • ACR Convergence 2025
Evaluating Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Remission Among Patients Initiating Belimumab in a Real-World Setting in the USA
Aarat M Patel¹, Renee L. Gennarelli², Temitope Bello², Ali Bonakdar² and Karen Worley³, ¹GSK, US Medical Affairs, Durham, NC, ²Cencora, Real-World Evidence, Conshohocken, PA, ³GSK, Global Real-World Evidence & Health Outcomes Research, Collegeville, PA
Background/Purpose: The Definition Of Remission In SLE (DORIS) criteria were developed to provide alignment on defining remission in patients with SLE.1,2 Belimumab (BEL) treatment increases…
Abstract Number: 1436 • ACR Convergence 2025
Angiogenesis Markers in Difficult to Treat Psoriatic Arthritis Patients
Devy Zisman¹, Amir Haddad², Dunia Araide³, Noa Hayat², Tal Gazitt⁴, Joy Feld⁵, Michal Aizenberg Peleg¹, Muhanad Abu-Elhija¹, Ameen Batheesh¹, Abdulla Watad⁶, Alina Simanovich¹, Nili Stein¹, Kateryna Milman² and Michal Amit Rahat¹, ¹Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, ²Carmel Medical Centre, Haifa, Israel, ³The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, HaZafon, Israel, ⁴Carmel Hospital, Haifa, Israel, ⁵Carmel and Zvulun Medical Centre, Haifa, Israel, ⁶Tel Hashomer Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
Background/Purpose: Difficult to treat (D2T) psoriatic arthritis (PsA) presents a state of active inflammatory disease manifestations despite therapy with at least two biologic disease modifying…
Abstract Number: 1277 • ACR Convergence 2025
Combination Therapy with Rituximab and Cyclophosphamide for Treating Pediatric Patients with Severe Manifestations of Rheumatic Disease
Eileen Rife¹, Daniel Reiff², John Bridges³, Emily Smitherman¹, randy Cron¹, Matthew Stoll¹, Melissa Mannion¹, Peter Weiser⁴ and Livie Timmerman⁵, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, birmingham, AL, ²Boys Town Hospital, Omaha, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham/Children's of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, ⁴University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, ⁵University of Alabama at Birmingham, Gardendale, AL
Background/Purpose: Current practice guidelines recommend either rituximab (RTX) or cyclophosphamide (CYC) for treatment of organ-threatening manifestations of systemic vasculitis or connective tissue disease (e.g., diffuse…
Abstract Number: 1053 • ACR Convergence 2025
Trends in Cost and Utilization of Biologic Medications for Rheumatologic Conditions: A Medicare Claims Study (2013–2022)
Taylor Koenig, Cleveland Clinic, Rocky River, OH
Background/Purpose: Biologic therapies have transformed rheumatologic disease management over the past two decades. As utilization of these high-cost medications increases and additional biologic and biosimilar…
Abstract Number: 0573 • ACR Convergence 2025
Effects of Sonelokimab, an IL-17A- and IL-17F-Inhibiting Nanobody, on Patient-Reported Symptoms and Quality of Life in Psoriatic Arthritis: Results From the Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase 2 ARGO Trial
Joseph F Merola¹, Alexis Ogdie², Alice B. Gottlieb³, Fabian Proft⁴, Nuala Brennan⁵, Alex Godwood⁵, Matthew R. Thomas⁵, Eva Cullen⁵, Kristian Reich⁶, Laura Coates⁷ and Laure Gossec⁸, ¹Department of Dermatology and Department of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Department of Dermatology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ⁴Department of Gastroenterology, Infectiology and Rheumatology (including Nutrition Medicine), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁵MoonLake Immunotherapeutics AG, Zug, Switzerland, ⁶MoonLake Immunotherapeutics AG and Translational Research in Inflammatory Skin Diseases, Institute for Health Services Research in Dermatology and Nursing, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Zug, Switzerland, ⁷Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom, ⁸Sorbonne Universite and Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Sonelokimab (SLK) is a novel IL-17A- and IL-17F-inhibiting Nanobody designed to target difficult-to-reach sites of inflammation due to its small size and albumin-binding domain.…
Abstract Number: 0779 • ACR Convergence 2025
Interim Results of a Randomized Placebo Controlled Study of IL-1 Inhibitor Goflikicept in Patients With Familial Mediterranean Fever
Olga Uhanova¹, serdal Ugurlu², Mikhail Kostik³, Tamara Sarkisyan⁴, Anna Yeghiazaryan⁴, Lidiya Lysenko⁵, Vilen Rameev⁵, Omer Karadag⁶, Valentina Vardanyan⁷, Veli Yazisiz⁸, Tatiana Sotnikova⁹, Vyacheslav Podsvirov¹, Alina Egorova¹⁰, Daria Bukhanova¹⁰, Sergey Grishin¹⁰, Tolga Tuncel¹¹, Mikhail Samsonov¹⁰ and Ahmet Gul¹², ¹Terafarm LLC, Stavropol, Russia, ²Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, ⁴Center of Medical Genetics and Primary Health Care LTD, Yerevan, Armenia, ⁵Sechenov’s ¹st State Moscow Medical University, Moscow, Russia, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, ⁷Ecosense Diagnostic Center, Yerevan, Armenia, ⁸Akdeniz University, Faculty of Medicine, Antalya, Turkey, ⁹State Budgetary Institution of Healthcare of Moscow Multispeciality Hospital named after S.P. Botkin of the Moscow City and Sechenov University, Moscow, Russia, ¹⁰R-Pharm JSC, Moscow, Russia, ¹¹TRpharm, Istanbul, Turkey, ¹²Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Goflikicept (GFC; RPH-104) is a novel fusion protein inhibiting interleukin-1 (IL-1). This study aimed to investigate its efficacy and safety in IL-1β-driven monogenic autoinflammatory…

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