Abstracts tagged "Biologics"

Abstract Number: 194 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Team Managed Care From a Patient’s Perspective: A Study Of Biological Patients At a Canadian Centre
Dawn Heap¹, Margaret Saldanha¹, Melissa Deamude¹, Cynthia Mech², Helena Ross¹, Kathy Kislinsky¹, Lauri Vanstone³, Arthur N. Lau⁴ and William G. Bensen⁵, ¹Dr. William G. Bensen, Rheumatology Health Team, St. Joseph's Hospital Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ²Dr. William G. Bensen, Rheumatology Health Team, Dr. Bensen's Rheumatology Clinic, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ³Dr. William Bensen Rheumatology Biologic Clinic, Rheumatology Health Team, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁴Rheumatology and Clinical Epidemiology, Division of Rheumatology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ⁵Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Clinical Professor, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Background/Purpose: In Canada, there is a widening care gap in Inflammatory Arthritis due to the increased aging population, higher disease prevalence, dwindling numbers of practicing…
Abstract Number: L11 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
First in Patient Study of Anti-GM-CSF Monoclonal Antibody (MOR103) in Active Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results of a Phase 1b/2a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial
Frank Behrens¹, Mikkel Ostergaard², Rumen Stoilov³, Piotr Wiland⁴, Thomas W. Huizinga⁵, Vadym Y. Berenfus⁶, Paul-Peter Tak⁷, Stoyanka Vladeva⁸, Juergen Rech⁹, Andrea Rubbert-Roth¹⁰, Mariusz Korkosz¹¹, Dmitriy Rekalov¹², Igor A. Zupanets¹³, Bo J. Ejbjerg¹⁴, Jens Geiseler¹⁵, Julia Fresenius¹⁵, Roman P. Korolkiewicz¹⁶, Arndt J. Schottelius¹⁶ and Harald Burkhardt¹, ¹CIRI /Div. of Rheumatology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, ²Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Copenhagen University Hospital at Glostrup, Glostrup, Denmark, ³Clinic of rheumatology, University Hospital (MHAT) St. Ivan Rilski, Sofia, Bulgaria, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Medical University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁶Occupational Diseases, Regional Clinical Hospital, Donetsk, Ukraine, ⁷Academic Medical Center / currently also GlaxoSmithKline, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁸Second Internal Clinic UMHAT Stara Zagora, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, ⁹Department of Internal Medicine 3, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, ¹⁰Internal Medicine I, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, ¹¹Malopolskie Centrum Medyczne, Krakow, Poland, ¹²Department of Internal Diseases, Zaporizhzhia Regional Hospital, Zaporozhe, Ukraine, ¹³Clinical and Diagnostics Centre of National Pharmaceutical University MOH of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine, ¹⁴Slagelse Sygehus, Slagelse, Denmark, ¹⁵Asklepios Clinic Munich-Gauting, Gauting, Germany, ¹⁶Development, MorphoSys AG, Martinsried/Planegg, Germany
Background/Purpose: MOR103, a human mAb targeting GM-CSF, is being evaluated for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Pre-clinical studies on cytokine function and investigations in experimental…