Abstracts tagged "Biomarkers"

Abstract Number: 0590 • ACR Convergence 2025
Effect of Deucravacitinib Treatment on Disease Activity–Associated Plasma Biomarkers in Patients With Active Psoriatic Arthritis: Results From 2 Phase 3 Studies
Vinod Chandran¹, Oliver FitzGerald², Philip J. Mease³, Lihi Eder⁴, Jose Scher⁵, Christopher Ritchlin⁶, Dafna D. Gladman⁷, Walter P Maksymowych⁸, Coryandar Gilvary⁹, Aditi Basu Bal⁹, Eleni Vritzali¹⁰ and Jinqi Liu⁹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Departments of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, and Gladman Krembil Psoriatic Arthritis Research Program, Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada, ²UCD, Dublin ⁶, Dublin, Ireland, ³Department of Rheumatology, Providence-Swedish Medical Center and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, ⁴University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁵New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁶University of Rochester Medical Center, Canandaigua, NY, ⁷Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Division of Rheumatology, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁸Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁹Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ¹⁰Bristol Myers Squibb, Boudry, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Understanding how treatments affect disease-relevant biomarker expression is essential for advancing targeted therapies. Deucravacitinib, an oral, selective, allosteric tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) inhibitor, has…
Abstract Number: 0832 • ACR Convergence 2025
Elevated serum peptidylarginine deiminase 4 (PAD4) levels in anti-CCP antibody positive at-risk individuals with arthralgia who progress to rheumatoid arthritis.
Sana Sharrack¹, Xia Yu², Arun Jayaraman³, Laurence Duquenne⁴, Andrea Di Matteo⁵, Kate Harnden⁵, Lucy Thornton⁵, Helen Jayne-Sugden⁵, Jacqueline Nam⁶, Adam Smith⁵, Mia Collins⁷, Rachel Sparks³, Fanyi Jiang⁸, Kyriakos Konstantinidis⁹, Jessica Neisen¹⁰, Greet De Baets¹⁰, David Close¹¹, Chris chamberlain¹⁰, Adam Platt¹², Paul Emery¹³, Josie Meade² and Kulveer Mankia¹³, ¹Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Sheffield, United Kingdom, ²Division of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Leeds, United Kingdom, ³AstraZeneca, Translational Science and Experimental Medicine, Research and Early Development, Respiratory and Immunology (R&I), BioPharmaceuticals R&D, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America, Gaithersburg, Maryland, ⁴Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁵Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Leeds, United Kingdom, ⁶Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, England, United Kingdom, ⁷AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden, ⁸AstraZeneca, Translational Science and Experimental Medicine, Research and Early Development, Respiratory and Immunology (R&I), BioPharmaceuticals R&D, Gothenburg, Sweden, Gothenburg, Sweden, ⁹AstraZeneca, R&I Projects, Research and Early Development, Respiratory and Immunology (R&I), BioPharmaceuticals R&D,, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ¹⁰AstraZeneca, Translational Science and Experimental Medicine, Research and Early Development, Respiratory and Immunology (R&I), BioPharmaceuticals R&D, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ¹¹AstraZeneca, Royston, United Kingdom, ¹²AstraZeneca, Translational Science and Experimental Medicine, Research and Early Development, Respiratory and Immunology (R&I), BioPharmaceuticals R&D, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Melbourn, Royston,, United Kingdom, ¹³University of Leeds, Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Anti-Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies are one of the strongest risk factors for the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Anti-CCP antibodies are generated against…
Abstract Number: 0463 • ACR Convergence 2025
Synovial fluid is a robust biomarker of synovial tissue inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis
Solana Cushing¹, Susan Goodman², Michael Parides¹, Hadeel Abdul-Rehman¹, Daniel Ramirez², Edward DiCarlo², Kristine Carandang³, Renee Davis⁴, Rebecca Blank⁵, Laura Donlin¹, Anna Helena Jonsson⁶, Amit Lakhanpal², Bella Mehta⁷, Dana Orange⁸ and Melanie smith², ¹Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ³Young Patients' Autoimmune Research & Empowerment Alliance, San Diego, CA, ⁴New York, New York, NY, ⁵NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, ⁶University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, ⁷Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, Jersey City, NJ, ⁸The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Synovial tissue pathotype may indicate treatment response in RA, but synovial biopsies are not widely available. Synovial fluid (SF) is a promising surrogate. We…
Abstract Number: 0212 • ACR Convergence 2025
Biomarker-Guided Therapeutic Calculator for Personalized Management in Pregnant Patients with Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases
Noe Macias-Segura¹, Rodolfo Martinez-Canales¹, Andres M. Ortiz-Rios², Braulio R. Avalos-Garcia², Eva Abigaid Galindo-Calvillo², Mario Cesar Salinas-Carmona¹, Lorena Perez-Barbosa², Dionicio A. Galarza-Delgado³ and Cassandra Michele Skinner-Taylor², ¹Immunology Service, Hospital Universitario Dr. José Eleuterio González, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, ²Rheumatology Service, Hospital Universitario Dr. José Eleuterio González, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, ³Rheumatology Service, Hospital Universitario Dr. José Eleuterio González, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Therapeutic decisions during pregnancy in women with autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs) such as SLE, APS, RA, and Sjögren’s syndrome require a personalized approach due…
Abstract Number: L11 • ACR Convergence 2024
Rheumatology Diagnostics Utilizing Artificial Intelligence (ANA Reader©) for ANA Pattern Identification and Titer Quantification
May Choi¹, Farbod Moghaddam¹, Mohammad Sajadi¹, Ann E. Clarke¹, Sasha Bernatsky², Karen Costenbader³, Irene Chen⁴, Murray Urowitz⁵, John Hanly⁶, Caroline Gordon⁷, Sang-Cheol Bae⁸, Juanita Romero-Diaz⁹, Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero¹⁰, Daniel Wallace¹¹, David Isenberg¹², Anisur Rahman¹³, Joan Merrill¹⁴, Paul Fortin¹⁵, Dafna Gladman¹⁶, Ian Bruce¹⁷, Michelle Petri¹⁸, Ellen Ginzler¹⁹, Mary Anne Dooley²⁰, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman²¹, Susan Manzi²², Andreas Jönsen²³, Graciela Alarcón²⁴, Ronald Van Vollenhoven²⁵, Cynthia Aranow²⁶, Meggan Mackay²⁶, Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza²⁷, S. Sam Lim²⁸, Murat Inanç²⁹, Kenneth Kalunian³⁰, Soren Jacobsen³¹, Christine Peschken³², Diane Kamen³³, Anca Askanase³⁴, Marvin Fritzler³⁵ and Mina Aminghafari¹, ¹University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ²Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴UC Berkeley and UCSF, Berkeley, CA, ⁵Self employed, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁶Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, ⁷University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁸Hanyang University Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea, ⁹The National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition, Mexico City, Mexico, ¹⁰Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹¹Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Studio City, CA, ¹²Department of Ageing, Rheumatology and Regenerative Medicine, Division of Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹³University College London, London, United Kingdom, ¹⁴Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁵Centre ARThrite - CHU de Québec - UniversitéLaval, Quebec, QC, Canada, ¹⁶University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁷Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, ¹⁸Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ¹⁹SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, New York, NY, ²⁰UNC physician network, Chapel Hill, NC, ²¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²²Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, ²³Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ²⁴The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Oakland, CA, ²⁵Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²⁶Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, New York, NY, ²⁷Biobizkaia Health Research Institute, Bilbao, Spain, ²⁸Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ²⁹Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, ³⁰UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ³¹Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³²University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ³³Medical University of South Carolina, Johns Island, SC, ³⁴Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ³⁵Mitogen Diagnostics Corp, Calgary, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: Antinuclear antibody (ANA) immunofluorescence (IFA) patterns and titers are a key part of rheumatology diagnostics, however, there is considerable intra- and inter-laboratory variability with…
Abstract Number: 0054 • ACR Convergence 2024
Supernatants from Macrophages Stimulated with Citrullinated and MAA-Modified Fibrinogen Contain PDGF-BB and TGF-b and Upregulate Fibrotic Markers in Human Lung Fibroblasts
Nozima Aripova¹, Michael Duryee¹, Bryant England¹, Carlos Hunter¹, Lauren Klingemann¹, Nigina Aripova², Amy Nelson¹, Jill Poole¹, Dawn Katafiasz¹, Kristina Bailey¹, Geoffrey Thiele¹ and Ted Mikuls¹, ¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²WUSTL, St. Louis, MO
Background/Purpose: Lung tissues from patients with rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD) have greater levels of malondialdehyde-acetaldehyde adducts (MAA) that co-localize with citrullinated (CIT) and…
Abstract Number: 0382 • ACR Convergence 2024
Comparative Analysis of Tear-based S100 Proteins, Cytokines, and Chemokines Levels in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Associated-uveitis: Insights into Eye Laterality and Severity of Ocular Inflammation
Ilaria Maccora¹, Mariia Pavlenko², Jackeline Rodriguez-Smith³, Amy Cassedy⁴, Mekibib Altaye⁵, hermine brunner⁶, Alexandra Duell⁵, Alexei Grom⁵, Theresa Hennard⁷, Virginia Miraldi Utz⁵, Najima Mwase⁵, Megan Quinlan-Waters⁵, grant schulert⁵, Alyssa Sproles⁸, Jessica Shantha⁹, Sunil K Srivastava¹⁰, Sherry Thornton⁸, Steven Yeh¹¹ and sheila Angeles-Han¹², ¹?PhD student, in the Area of Drugs and Innovative Treatments, NeuroFARBA Department, University of Florence. Meyer Children's Hospital, Florence Italy, Firenze, Florence, Italy, ²Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children`s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ³Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, Cincinnati, OH, ⁴Division of Biostatistics and Epidemology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, Cincinnati, OH, ⁵Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁶Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, ⁷Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁸Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, ⁹UCSF/Proctor Foundation, San Francisco, IL, ¹⁰Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic;, Cleveland, OH, ¹¹Truhlsen Eye Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center., Nebraska, NE, ¹²Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis-associated uveitis (JIA-U) is an ocular disease that can be unilateral or bilateral. Measurement of ocular inflammation is performed by ophthalmic examination…
Abstract Number: 0505 • ACR Convergence 2024
UseofaMolecularSignatureResponseClassifiertoPredictInadequateResponsetoTNFiResultsinFewer Patients Prescribed TNFi
George Karpouzas¹, Lixia Zhang², Mark Zielinski², Brian Cheng² and Sherry Guardiano³, ¹Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, ²Scipher Medicine Corporation, Waltham, MA, ³Scipher Medicine Corporation, Keene, NH
Background/Purpose: Tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) are generally the first class of biologic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with…
Abstract Number: 0643 • ACR Convergence 2024
Using FDG PET Brain Scans and Deep Learning Analyses to Identify a Specific Network Correlated with Cognitive Impairment in SLE
Nha Nguyen¹, An Vo¹, Chris Tang¹, Erik Anderson², Cynthia Aranow², Betty Diamond³, David Eidelberg¹ and Meggan Mackay⁴, ¹Feinstein Institutes, Manhasset, NY, ²Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, New York, NY, ³The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, ⁴Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY
Background/Purpose: Cognitive impairment (CI) is a debilitating, untreatable problem for up to 80% of individuals with SLE and human and mouse data suggest multiple SLE-related…
Abstract Number: 0799 • ACR Convergence 2024
Peripheral Biomarker Signatures and a Genetic Risk Score Improve the Identification of RA-ILD Beyond Clinical Risk Factors
Austin Wheeler¹, Thomas Riley², Joshua Baker³, Yangyuna Yang¹, Punyasha Roul⁴, Katherine Wysham⁵, grant Cannon⁶, Gary Kunkel⁷, Gail Kerr⁸, Dana Ascherman⁹, Paul Monach¹⁰, Andreas Reimold¹¹, Jill Poole¹, Tony Merriman¹², Ted Mikuls¹ and Bryant England¹, ¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²Hopsital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴UNMC, Omaha, NE, ⁵VA PUGET SOUND/UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, WA, ⁶University of Utah and Salt Lake City VA, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁷University of Utah and George E Wahlen VAMC, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁸Washington DC VAMC/Georgetown and Howard Universities, Washington, DC, ⁹Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ¹⁰VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, ¹¹Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ¹²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Homewood, AL
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD) is an extra-articular manifestation of RA that causes substantial morbidity and mortality. Despite the paucity of known risk…
Abstract Number: 0899 • ACR Convergence 2024
Proteomic Insights into JAK Inhibitor Therapeutic Response in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Ting-Shuan Wu¹ and Yi-Ming Chen², ¹Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan (Republic of China), ²Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, Taichung, Taiwan (Republic of China)
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common and complex inflammatory polyarthritis. Janus kinase inhibitors (JAKi) have shown superior efficacy compared to traditional treatments, but predictors…
Abstract Number: 1191 • ACR Convergence 2024
Discordant Associations Among Chronological and Biological Age with Multi-joint Osteoarthritis and Symptom Burden: The Johnston County Health Study
Liubov Arbeeva¹, Yvonne Golightly², Cameron Kurz³, Matlock Jeffries⁴, Virginia Kraus⁵, Richard Loeser⁶, Duncan Lascelles⁷ and Amanda Nelson³, ¹University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, NC, ²University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ³University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁴Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁵Duke University, Durham, NC, ⁶University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁷North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Background/Purpose: Biological age (BA) may be superior to chronological age (CA) in predicting mortality and age-related conditions such as diabetes and cognitive/functional decline (PMID35715611), as…
Abstract Number: 1463 • ACR Convergence 2024
Investigation of the Cardiometabolic-related Mechanism of Action of Apremilast Through Plasma Proteomics Profiling of Patients with Psoriasis or Psoriatic Arthritis from Three Phase 3 Studies
A. Francesca Setiadi¹, Maggie Burhans², Xuguang Hu², Stephen Colgan³, Kim Notari², Marcia C. Teixeira dos Santos², Apostolos Kontzias², Sue Cheng² and Nehal Mehta⁴, ¹Amgen Inc., South San Francisco, CA, ²Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, ³Amgen, Halton Hills, ON, Canada, ⁴The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
Background/Purpose: Psoriasis (PsO) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) are associated with higher rates of obesity and cardiometabolic complications. Apremilast (APR) is an inhibitor of phosphodiesterase 4,…
Abstract Number: 1685 • ACR Convergence 2024
The Renal Activity Index for Lupus (RAIL) Identifies Active Renal Disease in SLE Patients and Its Longitudinal Score Associates with Achievement of Renal Responses in Lupus Nephritis
Minal Aundhia¹, Jinqi Liu², Ellen Cody³, James Rose⁴, Angela Merritt¹, Megan Quinlan-Waters¹, Alyssa Sproles⁵, Sherry Thornton⁵, Prasad Devarajan⁴, Bin Huang⁶ and hermine brunner⁷, ¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ²Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ³Children's Wisconsin, Milwaukee, ⁴Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, ⁵Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, ⁶Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cinciannati, OH, ⁷Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: Lupus Nephritis (LN) confers a poor prognosis, and there is a lack of effective non-invasive tests to assess disease activity and treatment response. We…
Abstract Number: 2010 • ACR Convergence 2024
The Influence of Treat-to-target Urate Lowering Therapy and Anti-inflammatory Prophylaxis on Circulating Measures of Inflammation in Gout
Austin Wheeler¹, Tanner Ourada², Michael Duryee¹, Bryant England¹, Richard Reynolds³, James O'Dell¹, Jeff Newcomb¹, Michael Pillinger⁴, Robert Terkeltaub⁵, Ryan Ferguson⁶, Mary Brophy⁶, Tony Merriman⁷ and Ted Mikuls¹, ¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²University of Nebraska-Medical Center: College of Medicine, Omaha, NE, ³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York,, NY, ⁵Retired, San Diego, CA, ⁶Veterans Affairs, Boston, MA, ⁷University of Alabama at Birmingham, Homewood, AL
Background/Purpose: Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis worldwide and is associated with substantial cardiometabolic morbidity and mortality. In the STOP Gout trial (O’Dell JR…

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