Abstracts tagged "CyTOF"

Abstract Number: 2420 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Mass Cytometry Analysis of CD4+ T Cells in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Laura Su¹, Daniel del Alcazar² and Adam Marc², ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: CD4+ T cells play a key role in the initiation and progression of RA. Past studies have identified impaired function and regulation of several…
Abstract Number: 2637 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Novel Regulatory Antigen Presenting B Cell and Memory Regulatory T Cell Subsets Are Enriched during the Quiescent Phase of Childhood Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Joo Guan Yeo^1,2, Thaschawee Arkachaisri^1,3, Lena Das¹, Justin Hung Tiong Tan¹, Jing Yao Leong², Yun June Angela Tan⁴, Liyun Lai⁵, Loshinidevi D/O Thana Bathi², Phyllis Chen², Seck Choon Elene Lee¹, Yun Xin Book¹ and Salvatore Albani^5,6, ¹Rheumatology and Immunology Service, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, ²Singhealth Translational Immunology and Inflammation Centre (STIIC), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, ³Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, ⁴Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, ⁵SingHealth Translational Immunology and Inflammation Centre (STIIC), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, ⁶KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
Background/Purpose: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a multi-factorial disease and the conventional oligo-dimensional investigative approach involving one or a few cell subsets at a time…
Abstract Number: 83 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Whole Blood Stimulations Identify Elevated T Cell Cytokines and Altered Granulocyte/Dendritic Cell Signaling in SLE Patients with Variable Disease Activity
Samantha Slight-Webb¹, Krista M. Bean¹, Holden T. Maecker², Paul J. Utz³, Judith A. James⁴ and Joel M. Guthridge⁵, ¹Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ³Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ⁴Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁵Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OKC, OK
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterized by loss of immune tolerance to self-antigens and periods of waxing and waning disease. The clinical aspects of…
Abstract Number: 297 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Multiplexed Characterization of Circulating and Joint-Derived Human Neutrophils in Inflammatory Arthritis
Ricardo Grieshaber Bouyer¹, Olha Halyabar², Anais Levescot¹, Kacie Hoyt², Lauren Henderson² and Peter Nigrovic^1,2, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Neutrophils are innate immune cells that play a central role in the initiation of inflammatory arthritis as well as mediating tissue damage. We sought…
Abstract Number: 759 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Multi Dimensional Analysis of the Immunome in Systemic Sclerosis Reveals Functionally Related Abnormalities in MAIT and B Cell Compartments
Bhairav Paleja¹, Pavanish Kumar¹, Suzan Saidin¹, Ahmad Lajam², Camillus Chua¹, Liyun Lai¹, Andrea Hsiu Ling Low² and Salvatore Albani¹, ¹SingHealth Translational Immunology and Inflammation Centre (STIIC), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, ²Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
Background/Purpose: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease characterised by excessive fibrosis of skin and internal organs, and vascular dysfunction. Association of T and B…
Abstract Number: 953 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Persistence of Pathogenic CD4 Memory T Cells Revealed through Cytometry Time of Flight in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritic Patients with Disease Resurgence upon Withdrawal of Anti-TNFA Biologics
Jing Yao Leong¹, Joo Guan Yeo², Phyllis Chen³, Liyun Lai⁴, Fauziah Ally⁵, Loshinidevi D/O Thana Bathi³, Justin Hung Tiong Tan², Thaschawee Arkachaisri², Femke van Wijk⁶, Salvatore Albani⁴, Daniel J Lovell⁷ and Gerdien Mijnheer⁸, ¹SingHealth Translational Immunology and Inflammation Centre, Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd, Singapore, Singapore, ²Rheumatology and Immunology Service, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, ³Singhealth Translational Immunology and Inflammation Centre (STIIC), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, ⁴SingHealth Translational Immunology and Inflammation Centre (STIIC), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, ⁵STIIC, SingHealth Translational Immunology and Inflammation Centre, Singapore, Singapore, ⁶University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, ⁷Rheumatology, PRCSG - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cinncinnati, OH, ⁸1Laboratory of Translational Immunology, Department of Paediatric Immunology, , The Netherlands, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, Utrecht, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Treatment of polyarticular JIA with anti-TNFA biologics has experienced significant success, with up to 80% of patients demonstrating clinically meaningful efficacy. Yet concerns regarding…
Abstract Number: 1405 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Using Flow and Mass Cytometry to Demonstrate Robust Tissue Processing to Query Molecular Heterogeneity in Phase 1 of the Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) – RA Network
Kevin Wei¹, Deepak Rao², Fan Zhang³, Chamith Fonseka³, Kamil Slowikowski³, Joshua Keegan⁴, Laura T. Donlin⁵, Jason Turner⁶, Mandy J. McGeachy⁷, Nida Meednu⁸, David Lieb⁹, Stephen Kelly¹⁰, Susan M. Goodman¹¹, David L. Boyle¹², William H. Robinson¹³, Paul J. Utz¹⁴, Gary S. Firestein¹⁵, Harris Perlman¹⁶, Edward F. DiCarlo¹⁷, Costantino Pitzalis¹⁰, Andrew Filer¹⁸, Brendan Boyce¹⁹, Ellen M. Gravallese²⁰, Chad Nusbaum²¹, James Lederer⁴, Nir Hacohen^22,23,24, Peter Gregersen²⁵, Larry W. Moreland²⁶, Michael Holers²⁷, Vivian P. Bykerk²⁸, Soumya Raychaudhuri³, Michael Brenner²⁹ and Jennifer H. Anolik⁸, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Divisions of Genetics and Rheumatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Arthritis and Tissue Degeneration Program and the David Z. Rosensweig Genomics Research Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁶Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁷Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁸Medicine- Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, ⁹Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, ¹⁰Centre for Experimental Medicine and Rheumatology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, ¹¹Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, ¹²University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ¹³Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ¹⁴Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ¹⁵Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ¹⁶Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine,, Chicago, IL, ¹⁷Laboratory Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ¹⁸Institute of Inflammation and Ageing (IIA), University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ¹⁹University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, ²⁰Lazare Research Bldg, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, ²¹The Broad Institute and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, ²²Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²³Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, ²⁴Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, ²⁵The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, ²⁶Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²⁷Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, ²⁸Divison of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ²⁹Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Discovery and application of new therapies for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been hampered by multiple factors, including disease heterogeneity and the lack of well…
Abstract Number: 133 • 2017 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
3-D Explant Method Facilitates the Study of Lymphocytes in Synovium and Reveals a Population of Resident Memory-Like T Cells in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Lauren Henderson¹, Deepak Rao², Nikola Teslovich^3,4, Sandra King⁵, Fumitaka Mizoguchi⁶, Sarah Ameri⁶, Allyn Morris⁷, Christopher Elco⁵, Margaret Chang⁸, Anais Levescot⁹, James Lederer¹⁰, Scott Martin¹¹, Barry Simmons¹¹, John Wright¹¹, Michael Brenner², Soumya Raychaudhuri^{12,13,14,15,16}, Robert Fuhlbrigge¹⁷ and Peter Nigrovic^1,18, ¹Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Massachusetts Technical Institute and Harvard University, Cambridge, MD, ⁴Divisions of Genetics and Rheumatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁸Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁹Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, boston, MA, ¹⁰Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹¹Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹²Divisions of Genetics and Rheumatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹³Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Massachusetts Technical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, ¹⁴Partners Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine, Boston, MA, ¹⁵Institute of Inflammation and Repair, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ¹⁶Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden, ¹⁷Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, ¹⁸Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Tissue resident memory T (TRM) cells survive indefinitely in barrier tissues and mediate swift immunologic memory responses at sites of microbe entry. TRM cells…
Abstract Number: 1557 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
3-D Explant Method Facilitates the Study of Lymphocytes in Synovium and Reveals a Population of Resident Memory-like T Cells in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Lauren Henderson¹, Deepak Rao², Nikola Teslovich^3,4, Sandra King⁵, Fumitaka Mizoguchi⁶, Sarah Ameri⁶, Allyn Morris⁷, Christopher Elco⁸, James Lederer⁹, Scott Martin¹⁰, Barry Simmons¹⁰, John Wright¹⁰, Michael Brenner², Soumya Raychaudhuri^{11,12,13,14,15}, Peter Nigrovic^1,16 and Robert Fuhlbrigge^17,18, ¹Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Divisions of Genetics and Rheumatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, ⁵Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁷Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁸Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁹Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹⁰Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹¹Divisions of Genetics and Rheumatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹²Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Massachusetts Technical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, ¹³Partners Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine, Boston, MA, ¹⁴Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden, ¹⁵Institute of Inflammation and Repair, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ¹⁶Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹⁷Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹⁸Dermatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Tissue resident memory T (TRM) cells survive indefinitely in barrier tissues and mediate swift immunologic memory responses at sites of microbe entry. TRM cells…
Abstract Number: 1823 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
African American and European American SLE Patients with Variable Disease Activity Reveal Distinct Differences in CD4+ T Cell and Monocyte Pathways
Samantha Slight-Webb¹, Rufei Lu², Krista M. Bean¹, Holden T. Maecker³, Paul J. Utz⁴, Joel M. Guthridge⁵ and Judith A. James⁶, ¹Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ³Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ⁴Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ⁵Arthritis & Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁶Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disorder with both genetic and environmental contributions to disease etiology. Patients with different ancestral backgrounds have different…
Abstract Number: 1824 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Mycophenolate Mofetil Use Associates with Unique Biologic Changes in B Cell and T Regulatory Cell Pathways in SLE Patients
Samantha Slight-Webb¹, Rufei Lu², Krista M. Bean¹, Holden T. Maecker³, Paul J. Utz⁴, Joel M. Guthridge⁵ and Judith A. James⁶, ¹Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ²Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ³Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ⁴Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ⁵Arthritis & Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, ⁶Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: The management of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is complicated by a heterogeneous clinical presentation. Currently, mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) is a commonly used medication to…
Abstract Number: 1840 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Dichotomy of Regulatory Immunome Is Related to Disease Activity in Juvenile Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Joo Guan Yeo^1,2, Thaschawee Arkachaisri^1,3, Justin Hung Tiong Tan¹, Jing Yao Leong⁴, Lena Das¹, Loshinidevi D/O Thana Bathi², Phyllis Chen² and Salvatore Albani^3,4, ¹Rheumatology and Immunology, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, ²Singhealth Translational Immunology and Inflammation Centre, Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd, Singapore, Singapore, ³Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, ⁴SingHealth Translational Immunology and Inflammation Centre, Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd, Singapore, Singapore
Background/Purpose: The pathogenesis of SLE involves disturbances to the homeostatic balance between the immune effector and regulatory system. The conventional mono-dimensional mechanistic interrogation of one…
Abstract Number: 2417 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
High Dimensional Interrogation of the T Cell Immunome in Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Patients
Jing Yao Leong¹, Justin Tiong², Joo Guan Yeo^2,3, Liyun Lai¹, Phyllis Chen³, Loshinidevi D/O Thana Bathi³, Thaschawee Arkachaisri², Daniel J Lovell⁴ and Salvatore Albani^1,5, ¹SingHealth Translational Immunology and Inflammation Centre, Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd, Singapore, Singapore, ²Rheumatology and Immunology, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, ³Singhealth Translational Immunology and Inflammation Centre, Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd, Singapore, Singapore, ⁴PRCSG Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cinncinnati, OH, ⁵Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
Background/Purpose: Clinical management of polyarticular JIA with anti-TNF-alpha has been met with moderate success, with up to 50% of patients demonstrating clinically meaningful efficacy. Concerns…
Abstract Number: 3111 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Pathogenic T Cell Responses in Systemic Sclerosis Is Shaped By Novel Cytokine Axis in the Microenvironment: A Multidimensional, High Throughput Analysis
Hari Balaji¹, Andrea HL Low², Chieh Hwee Ang³, Raymond Ong Jr.⁴, Juntao Li⁵, Camillus Chua³, Liyun Lai³, Suzan Saidin³ and Salvatore Albani³, ¹SingHealth Translational Immunology and Inflammation Centre, Singapore, Singapore, ²-, Singapore, Singapore, ³SingHealth Translational Immunology and Inflammation Centre, Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd, Singapore, Singapore, ⁴Singhealth Translational Immunology and Inflammation Centre (STIIC), Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd, Singapore, Singapore, ⁵Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
Background/Purpose: Pathogenic immune responses can be profoundly shaped by the interplay between the periphery and the microenvironment. In this work we aimed at defining the…
Abstract Number: 3216 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Integrated High-Dimensional Analyses Reveal a Pathologically Expanded ‘Peripheral’ B Cell-Helper T Cell Population in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Deepak Rao¹, Michael Gurish², Kamil Slowikowski³, Chamith Fonseka², Jennifer Marshall⁴, Yanyan Liu⁵, Laura T. Donlin⁶, Lauren Henderson⁷, Fumitaka Mizoguchi⁸, Nikola Teslovich⁹, Michael Weinblatt¹⁰, Elena Massarotti¹⁰, Jonathan Coblyn¹¹, Simon M. Helfgott¹⁰, Yvonne C. Lee¹², Derrick J. Todd¹⁰, Vivian P. Bykerk¹³, Susan M. Goodman¹⁴, Alessandra B. Pernis¹⁵, Lionel Ivashkiv¹⁴, Elizabeth W. Karlson¹⁰, Peter Nigrovic⁹, Andrew Filer¹⁶, Christopher Buckley¹⁷, James Lederer¹⁸, Soumya Raychaudhuri¹⁹ and Michael Brenner¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Divisions of Rheumatology and Genetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Rheumatology Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁵Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁶Arthritis and Tissue Degeneration Program and the David Z. Rosensweig Genomics Research Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁷Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁸Department of Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan, ⁹Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, ¹⁰Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹²Rheumatology Immunology & Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹³Divison of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ¹⁴Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ¹⁵David Z. Rosensweig Genomics Research Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ¹⁶University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ¹⁷Rheumatology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ¹⁸Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹⁹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Determining the pathologic functions of T cells that infiltrate target tissues remains a central challenge in autoimmune diseases. In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the formation…

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