Publications

View and download slide summaries of the latest original articles focusing on therapies in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases including rheumatology, dermatology, and gastroenterology. All materials produced by the team are subsequently reviewed and approved by individual Steering Committee members.

June 2024

A disease-associated gene desert directs macrophage inflammation through ETS2

Nature 2024 doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07501-1 Epub ahead of print

Haag LM,

Papa I,

Zhang Q,

Zhang T,

Wood CS,

New FN,

Hall A,

Jiang L,

Saruhan-Direskeneli G,

Green M,

Nye E,

Stankey, et al. used functional genomics to show that the ETS2 gene is a central regulator of human inflammatory macrophages. They also found that ETS2 was disrupted by JAK inhibitors and MEK inhibitors, with multiple MEK inhibitors being shown to downregulate ETS2-target genes.

Keywords:

JAK,
MOA

Phase 2 trial of deucravacitinib in psoriatic arthritis: Biomarkers associated with disease activity, pharmacodynamics, and clinical responses

Arthritis Rheumatol 2024 doi: 10.1002/art.42921 Epub ahead of print

Gao L,

Hu Y,

Nowak M,

Banerjee S,

Catlett I

FitzGerald, et al. found that Deucravacitinib significantly impacted biomarkers associated with TYK2 signalling pathways of key inflammatory cytokines, including IL-23 and Type I IFN, and those related to collagen matrix turnover.

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March 2024

Abatacept inhibits inflammation and onset of rheumatoid arthritis in individuals at high risk (ARIAA): A randomised, international, multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Lancet 2024;403(10429):850–859 doi 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02650-8

Rech J,

Hagen M,

Braun J,

Kiltz U,

Fleck M,

Voll R,

Thiel J,

Feist E,

Largo R,

This study by Rech, et al. shows that 6-month treatment with abatacept was associated with a decrease in MRI inflammation, clinical symptoms, and risk of RA development in participants at high risk. The effects of the intervention persist through a 1-year drug-free observation phase.

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February 2024

The effects of suppressing inflammation by tofacitinib may simultaneously improve glycaemic parameters and inflammatory markers in rheumatoid arthritis patients with comorbid type 2 diabetes: a proof‑of‑concept, open, prospective, clinical study

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38178250/

Tofacitinib treatment resulted in a significant simultaneous improvement of both metabolic and inflammatory parameters in RA patients with T2D. Due to increasing evidence for a link between RA, insulin resistance and T2D Di Muzio et al. investigated if consecutively recruited RA patients on tofacitinib therapy showed improvement in HOMA2-IR values over 6 months.