Abstracts tagged "Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)"

Abstract Number: 0598 • ACR Convergence 2021
Differences in Discoid Lupus Erythematosus Skin Lesion Distribution and Characteristics in Black and Non-Black Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Adrienne Joseph, Brandon Windsor, Linda Hynan and Benjamin Chong, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: Epidemiological studies have shown that discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) has a higher incidence and prevalence in minorities, particularly Black individuals. Racial differences in clinical…
Abstract Number: 0770 • ACR Convergence 2021
Evaluation of the Lupus Low Disease Activity State (LLDAS) vs. the Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index (SLEDAI)-2K Score in a Pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Cohort
Bridget Wilson, Tingting Qiu, Angela Merritt, Bin Huang and Hermine Brunner, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease which can affect any organ system, and ongoing disease activity leads to organ damage. The…
Abstract Number: 0866 • ACR Convergence 2021
Characteristics Associated with Poor COVID-19 Outcomes in People with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE): Data from the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance (GRA)
Manuel Ugarte-Gil¹, Graciela Alarcn², Andrea Seet³, Zara Izadi³, Ali Duarte-Garcia⁴, Cristina Reategui-Sokolova⁵, Ann Clarke⁶, Leanna Wise⁷, Guillermo Pons-Estel⁸, Maria José Santos⁹, Sasha Bernatsky¹⁰, Sandra Lúcia Ribeiro¹¹, Samar Al Emadi¹², Jeffrey Sparks¹³, Tiffany Hsu¹⁴, Kristin D'Silva¹⁵, Naomi Patel¹⁵, Emily Gilbert¹⁶, Maria Valenzuela-Almada¹⁷, Andreas Jnsen¹⁸, Gianpiero Landolfi¹⁹, Micaela Fredi²⁰, Tiphaine Goulenok²¹, Mathilde Devaux²², Xavier Mariette²³, Viviane Queyrel²⁴, Vasco C Romão²⁵, Graça Sequeira²⁶, Rebecca Hasseli²⁷, Bimba Franziska Hoyer²⁸, Reinhard Voll²⁹, Christof Specker³⁰, Roberto Baez³¹, Vanessa Castro Coello³², Edgard Neto³³, Gilda Ferreira³⁴, Odirlei Andre Monticielo³⁵, Emily Sirotich³⁶, Jean Liew³⁷, Jonathan Hausmann³⁸, Paul Sufka³⁹, Rebecca Grainger⁴⁰, Suleman Bhana⁴¹, Wendy Costello⁴², Zachary Wallace⁴³, Lindsay Jacobsohn⁴⁴, Anja Strangfeld⁴⁵, Elsa Frazão Mateus⁴⁶, Kimme Hyrich⁴⁷, Laure Gossec⁴⁸, Loreto Carmona¹, Saskia Lawson-Tovey⁴⁷, Lianne Kearsley-Fleet⁴⁹, Martin Schaefer⁵⁰, Pedro Machado⁵¹, Philip Robinson⁵², Milena Gianfrancesco³ and Jinoos Yazdany³, ¹Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Essalud/Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁵Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Lima, Peru, ⁶University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁷LAC+USC/Keck Medicine of USC, Pasadena, CA, ⁸Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumaticas (CREAR), Rosario, Argentina, ⁹Rheumatology Department, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal, ¹⁰McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, ¹¹Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Amazonas, Brazil, ¹²Hamad medical corporation, Doha, Qatar, ¹³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital, Jamaica Plain, MA, ¹⁵Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, ¹⁶Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ¹⁷Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ¹⁸Lund University, Lund, Sweden, ¹⁹Epidemiology Research Unit, Italian Society for Rheumatology, Milan, Italy, ²⁰Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Unit, ASST Spedali Civili and University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, ²¹Internal Medicine Department, Bichat Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris, France, ²²Service de Médecine Interne, CHI Poissy Saint Germain, Poissy, France, ²³Université Paris- Saclay, Rheumatology, Paris, France, ²⁴University Hospital of Nice, Nice, France, ²⁵Rheumatology Department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Lisbon Academic Medical Centre and European Reference Network on Rare Connective Tissue and Musculoskeletal Diseases Network (ERN-ReCONNET); Rheumatology Research Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, ²⁶Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Algarve, Unidade de Faro, Faro, Portugal, ²⁷Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Campus Kerckhoff, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Bad Nauheim, Germany., Bad Nauheim, Germany, ²⁸Universittsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany, ²⁹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, ³⁰Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany, ³¹Hospital Francisco Lopez Lima, General Roca, Rio Negro, Argentina, ³²Sanatorio Güemes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³³UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil, ³⁴Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, ³⁵Serviço de Reumatologia do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, ³⁶McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, ³⁷Boston University, Boston, MA, ³⁸Boston Children's Hospital / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Cambridge, MA, ³⁹HealthPartners, Eagan, MN, ⁴⁰University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, ⁴¹Crystal Run Health, Montvale, NJ, ⁴²Irish Children's Arthritis Network, Bansha, Ireland, ⁴³Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton, MA, ⁴⁴University of California San Francisco, Antioch, CA, ⁴⁵Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁴⁶Liga Portuguesa Contra as Doenças Reumáticas (LPCDR), Lisbon, Portugal, ⁴⁷University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁴⁸Sorbonne Université; APHP, Rheumatology Department, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France, ⁴⁹Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁵⁰German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany, ⁵¹Centre for Rheumatology & Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ⁵²Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Herston, Australia
Background/Purpose: Preliminary data in people with SLE suggested that disease activity as well as SLE treatment at time of COVID-19 acquisition impact COVID-19 outcomes over…
Abstract Number: 0882 • ACR Convergence 2021
COVID-19 Impact Among Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Jose Rubio¹, Suzanne krishfield¹ and Vasileios Kyttaris², ¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²BIDMC, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Initial studies of SLE patients with COVID-19 revealed an increased risk for severe disease in people with distinct demographic features such as advanced age…
Abstract Number: 0970 • ACR Convergence 2021
Hippo Signaling Is a Novel Regulator of Apoptosis and Photosensitivity in Lupus Keratinocytes
Grace Hile¹, Patrick Coit², Bin Xu¹, Shannon Estadt¹, Jacob Martens³, Rachael Wasikowski¹, Lam Tsoi¹, Ramiro Iglesias-Bartolome⁴, Celine Berthier¹, Allison Billi⁵, Johann Gudjonsson⁵, Amr Sawalha² and J. Michelle Kahlenberg¹, ¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Graduate Program in Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁴NIH, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, ⁵Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: Skin inflammation and photosensitivity are common manifestations of cutaneous (CLE) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), yet the mechanisms underlying heightened cell death and epidermal…
Abstract Number: 1056 • ACR Convergence 2021
Characterization of the Patterns of Care, Access and Direct Costs of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Brazil: Findings from the Macunaíma Study
Mirhelen Mendes de Abreu¹, Vander Fernandes², Odirlei Andre Monticielo³, Alexandre Cristovão Maiorano¹, Fernando dos Santos Beserra¹, Flavia Rachel Moreira Lamarão⁴, Nathalie David⁴, Bruna de Veras⁴, Magda Araujo⁴, Blanca Elena Rios Gomes Bica⁵, Dalianna Luise Andrade Souto Rodrigues², Guilherme Andrade Bulbol⁶, Natalia Jardim Martins da Silva⁷, Domingos Sávio Nunes de Lima⁶ and Marta Maria das Chagas Medeiros⁷, ¹Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; MAPEAR Laboratory, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, ²Universidade de Cuiabá, Cuiabá, Brazil, ³Serviço de Reumatologia do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, ⁴GlaxoSmithKline, Medical Department, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ⁵Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ⁶Hospital Universitário Getúlio Vargas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, ⁷Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
Background/Purpose: This study evaluated the patterns of care, access and direct costs related to the management and treatment of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)…
Abstract Number: 1263 • ACR Convergence 2021
Treatment of Pediatric Lupus Is Associated with Significant Re-Organization of B Cell Chromatin
Joyce Hui-Yuen¹, Kaiyu Jiang², Susan Malkiel³, Betty Diamond³ and James Jarvis⁴, ¹North Shore LIJ Health System, Great Neck, NY, ²University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, ³Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, ⁴University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine, Buffalo, NY
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) may be triggered by gene-environment interactions. Data remain scarce on how epigenetic variance contributes to disease risk in pediatric SLE…
Abstract Number: 1279 • ACR Convergence 2021
Impact of Active Lupus Nephritis in Patient-Reported Outcomes from a Latin American, Multicenter Lupus Cohort
Romina Nieto¹, Eduardo Ferreira Borba², Eugenia Settecasse³, Diana Fernandez-Avila⁴, Laura Maurelli⁵, Carla Gobbi⁶, Verónica Saurit⁷, Fernando Arizpe⁸, Julieta Daniele⁹, Maria Constanza Bertolaccini¹⁰, Eduardo Kerzberg¹¹, María de los Ángeles Gargiulo¹², Anabella Rodriguez¹³, Ana Carolina Londe¹⁴, Vitalina Sousa Barbosa¹⁵, Andrese Aline Gasparin¹⁶, Carolina Albanez A Cunha Andrade¹⁷, Luciana Parente Costa Seguro¹⁸, Lucas Victoria de Oliveira Martins¹⁹, Oscar Neira²⁰, Carolina Llanos²¹, Loreto Massardo²², Antonio Iglesias²³, Ivana Nieto Aristizábal²⁴, Gloria Vasquez²⁵, Paul Mendez-Patarroyo²⁶, Lizeth de la Hoz Rueda²³, José Martínez Pérez²⁷, Reyna Sánchez Briones²⁸, Mario Pérez Cristóbal²⁹, Eduardo Martin-Nares³⁰, Yaneli Juárez-Vicuña³¹, Yelitza Gonzalez Bello³², Jorge González García³³, Dionicio Galarza-Delgado³⁴, Marcos Vázquez³⁵, Patricia Langjarh³⁵, Magaly Alva Linares³⁶, Cristina Reategui-Sokolova³⁷, Armando Calvo Quirós³⁸, Edral Rodriguez³⁹, Ricardo Robaina⁴⁰, Martín Rebella⁴¹, Graciela Alarcn⁴², Ashley Orillion⁴³, Chetan Karyekar⁴⁴, Federico Zazzetti⁴⁵ and Guillermo Pons-Estel⁴⁶, ¹Hospital Provincial de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina, ²Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, ³Instituto de Investigaciones Teóricas y Aplicadas. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Estadistica. Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina, ⁴Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁵Hospital Italiano de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, ⁶Hospital Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, ⁷Hospital Privado Universitario de Córdoba, Córdoba, ⁸Hospital HIGA San Martín, La Plata, Argentina, ⁹Sanatorio Británico, Rosario, Argentina, ¹⁰Hospital Padilla, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, ¹¹Hospital General de Agudos J.M. Ramos Mejía, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹²Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas Alfredo Lanari, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹³CEMIC, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ¹⁴Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciencias Médicas, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹⁵Hospital das Clinicas, Univerisad Federal de Goias, Goias, Brazil, ¹⁶Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil, ¹⁷Universidad Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, ¹⁸Hospital Das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP, São Paulo, Brazil, ¹⁹Universidad Federal São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ²⁰Hospital del Salvador, Santiago, Chile, ²¹Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, ²²Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago, Chile, ²³Clínica de la Costa Ltda., Barranquilla, Colombia, ²⁴Fundación Valle del Lili, Cali, Colombia, ²⁵Division of rheumatology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia, ²⁶Reumavance Group, Rheumatology section, Department of Internal Medicine, Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá University Hospital; Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, ²⁷Hospital Luis Vernaza, Guayaquil, Ecuador, ²⁸Centro Médico La Raza, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ²⁹Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ³⁰Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico, ³¹Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, Ciudad de México, Mexico, ³²Centro de Estudios de investigación Básica y Clínica S.C, Guadalajara, Mexico, ³³Hospital Central Dr. Ignacio Morones Prieto, San Luís Potosí, Mexico, ³⁴Hospital Universitario "Dr Jose E. Gonzalez", Monterrey, Mexico, ³⁵Hospital de Clínicas I, Asunción, Paraguay, ³⁶Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliatti Martins, Lima, Peru, ³⁷Hospital Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, Lima, Peru, ³⁸Hospital Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, ³⁹Hospital Docente Padre Billini, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, ⁴⁰Clínica Médica C, Hospital de Clínicas, UDELAR, Montevideo, Uruguay, ⁴¹Unidad de Enfermedades Autoinmunes Sistémicas de Médica Uruguay Corporación de Asistencia Médica (MUCAM); Unidad de Enfermedades Autoinmunes Sistémicas del Hospital de Clínicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, ⁴²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴³Global Commercial Strategic Organisation, Johnson and Johnson, Horsham, PA, ⁴⁴Janssen R&D, Spring House, PA, ⁴⁵Medical Affairs, Jan-Cil Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ⁴⁶Grupo Oroño. Centro Regional de Enfermedades Autoinmunes y Reumaticas (GO-CREAR), Rosario, Argentina
Background/Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease characterized by multiple and heterogeneous clinical manifestations that may negatively affect these patients’ quality of life…
Abstract Number: 1295 • ACR Convergence 2021
Belimumab Reduces Severe Flares in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Across Multiple Patient Subgroups: Results of a Large Integrated Analysis
Michelle Petri¹, Norma Lynn Fox², Mathew Gibb³, Tania Gonzalez-Rivera², Anne Hammer², Holly Quasny⁴, Ronald van Vollenhoven⁵ and David Roth², ¹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²GlaxoSmithKline, Collegeville, PA, ³Veramed Ltd., Twickenham, United Kingdom, ⁴GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, NC, ⁵Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam Rheumatology Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Belimumab (BEL) is a disease-modifying systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) treatment that inhibits B-lymphocyte stimulator. BEL has demonstrated a consistent efficacy profile across 4 pivotal…
Abstract Number: 1446 • ACR Convergence 2021
Trauma Is Associated with Flares in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
Patricia Katz¹, Kimberly DeQuattro¹, Sarah Patterson², Laura Trupin³, Kamil Barbour⁴, Stephanie Rush¹, Cristina Lanata⁵, Jinoos Yazdany¹ and Maria Dall'Era⁶, ¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ²University of California San Francisco, Pacifica, CA, ³UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA, ⁵University of California San Francisco, Moss Beach, CA, ⁶University of California San Francisco, Corte Madera, CA
Background/Purpose: Daily psychological stress and trauma exposure with or without symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder have been linked to an increased risk of SLE onset.1,…
Abstract Number: 1489 • ACR Convergence 2021
Identification of Mitochondrial Antigens Targeted by Autoantibodies in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
Yann BECKER¹, Jean-Philippe Gagné², Anne-Sophie Julien³, Tania Lévesque¹, Nadine Gougeard⁴, Vicente Rubio⁴, François-Michel Boisvert⁵, Dominique Jean⁶, Guy Poirier², Paul R Fortin⁷ and Éric Boilard¹, ¹Centre de Recherche ARThrite, Université Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada, ²Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec - Université Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada, ³Département de mathématiques et statistique, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada, ⁴Structural Enzymopathology Unit, Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Valencia, Spain, ⁵Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, ⁶Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada, ⁷CHU de Quebec - Universite Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada
Background/Purpose: Mitochondria are organelles that possess several bacterial features such as a double-stranded genome with hypomethylated CpG islets, formylated proteins, and a double membrane composed…
Abstract Number: 1526 • ACR Convergence 2021
Development of Antinuclear Antibodies and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Patients on Tumor Necrosis Factor α Inhibitor Therapy
Chathura Wijewardena¹, Paramarajan Pirinavan¹, Sandy Nasr¹ and Andras Perl², ¹SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, ²State University of New York, Syracuse, NY
Background/Purpose: Tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) inhibitor therapy has been widely used worldwide as a potent immunosuppressant for a variety of rheumatological diseases. Induction of…
Abstract Number: 1723 • ACR Convergence 2021
Factors Associated with Postpartum Flare in Women with Lupus
Anitha Ramu¹, Maedeh Veyseh¹, Brianna Lally², Shudan Wang³ and Anna Broder⁴, ¹Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ²Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, ³Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY, ⁴Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Background/Purpose: Several prior studies have assessed disease activity in the setting of pregnancy and have shown that certain factors such as thrombocytopenia, systemic lupus erythematosus…
Abstract Number: 1747 • ACR Convergence 2021
BIIB059 Demonstrates Improvement in Joint Manifestations in Participants with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Part a of a Phase 2, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study
Ronald van Vollenhoven¹, Richard Furie², Kenneth Kalunian³, Maria Dall'Era⁴, Victoria Werth⁵, Xiaobi Huang⁶, Hua Carroll⁶, Cristina Musselli⁶, Catherine Barbey⁷ and Nathalie Franchimont⁶, ¹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam Rheumatology Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Great Neck, NY, ³UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ⁴University of California San Francisco, Corte Madera, CA, ⁵Philadelphia VAMC, Philadelphia, PA, USA and Department of Dermatology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶Biogen, Cambridge, MA, ⁷Biogen, Baar, Switzerland
Background/Purpose: Joint involvement, a frequent manifestation of SLE, can be assessed using global lupus disease activity indices (SLEDAI-2K, BILAG-2004) and/or by assessing joint tenderness and…
Abstract Number: 1766 • ACR Convergence 2021
Itolizumab-induced Modulation of Cell Surface CD6 Is a Pharmacodynamic Marker of Drug Activity in SLE Patients
Dalena Chu¹, Leslie Chinn², Jeanette Ampudia¹, Krishna Polu¹, Joel Rothman¹, Maple Fung³, Dolca Thomas⁴, Chaim Putterman⁵, Cherie Ng¹ and Stephen Connelly¹, ¹Equillium, Inc., La Jolla, CA, ²Equillium, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, ³Equillium, Inc., San Diego, CA, ⁴Equillium, Inc., Brooklyn, NY, ⁵Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Background/Purpose: Itolizumab (ITO) is a novel first-in-class monoclonal antibody (IgG1-k) specific for CD6, a co-stimulatory receptor that is highly expressed on T cells that plays…

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