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.
Rheumatology 2025 Epub ahead of print doi: 10.1016/S2665-9913(25)00184-5
Bennett et al, showed that tofacitinib treatment in adults with rheumatoid arthritis led to a significant increase in lower limb and thigh muscle volume, accompanied by rises in serum creatinine without evidence of renal impairment.
Drug Des Devel Ther. 2024;18:5239-5253. doi 10.2147/DDDT.S490772
Alarfaj et al. demonstrate fenofibrate significantly improved clinical outcomes, inflammatory biomarkers, and quality of life in patients with mild-to-moderate UC when added to mesalamine therapy.
Arthritis Rheumatol 2024 Epub ahead of print doi: 10.1002/art.42974
Pacheco et al. demonstrated that, compared with axSpA patients who respond to secukinumab, patients who do not respond show increased IL-17A-producing cells and have a more pronounced type 1 IFN signature, indicating a larger inflammatory burden.
Arthritis Rheumatol 2024 doi: 10.1002/art.42921 Epub ahead of print
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.
Rheumatology (Oxford) 2023; 62(SI3):SI304–SI312 doi 10.1093/rheumatology/kead502
This study by Kerekes, et al. investigated the relationship between tofacitinib therapy, angiogenic biomarker levels, and vascular inflammation and function in RA patients. The authors found that tofacitinib treatment reduced the production of bFGF, PlGF and IL-6, which may inhibit synovial and aortic inflammation.
ACR Open Rheumatol. 2023 doi: 10.1002/acr2.11589
Whole blood transcriptome profiling reveals differential gene expression in patients with active PsA from the DISCOVER-1 and DISCOVER-2 clinical studies in comparison with healthy controls.
RMD Open. 2023;9(3):e003279 doi 10.1136/rmdopen-2023-003279 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37507210/
This systematic review identified DMARDs evaluated for axSpA and PsA, distinguishing between csDMARDs, tsDMARDs, and bDMARDs. The review pinpointed twenty-six distinct targeted therapies currently in clinical development; 18 therapies for axSpA and 15 therapies for PsA.
Rheumatol Ther. 2023;10(5):1335–1348 doi 10.1007/s40744-023-00583-9
This study by Tanaka, et al. shows that filgotinib reduces peripheral protein biomarkers associated with JAK/STAT signalling, inflammatory signalling, immune cell migration, and bone resorption in RA patients. Notably, filgotinib 200 mg significantly reduced IL-6, TNF, CXCL13 levels as early as Week 4.
RMD Open. 2022;8(2):e002571 doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2022-002571
Weitz, et al. analyse 291 protein biomarkers and three genetic markers and do not identify a clear mechanistic explanation for higher rates of venous thromboembolism (VTE) with tofacitinib in the ORAL Surveillance study.
Rheumatol Ther 2022 Jun;9(3):935-955. Doi: 10.1007/s40744-022-00434-z
Merola et al., reported the effect of interleukin (IL)-17A inhibition with secukinumab on cardiovascular (CV) risk parameters in patients with psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis (PsA), and axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) over 1 year of treatment. This study evaluated data from 19 secukinumab related clinical trials in phase 3/4 in psoriasis, PsA, and axSpA.
