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.

April 2023

Efficacy and Safety of Golimumab in Patients with Non-radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis: A Withdrawal and Retreatment Study (GO-BACK)

Rheumatology (Oxford) 2023;62(11):3601–3609 doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kead112

Weinstein CLJ,

Sliwinska-Stanczyk P,

Hála T,

Stanislav M,

Tzontcheva A,

Yao R,

Berd Y,

Curtis SP,

Phillip G

This study highlighted that continued treatment with Golimumab (GLM) QMT or GLM Q2MT was superior to placebo. The GO-BACK study was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of golimumab treatment withdrawal in adults with nr-axSpA who demonstrate inactive disease during a 10-month open label GLM run-in.

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December 2021

Tofacitinib for the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis: a phase III, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study

Ann Rheum Dis. 2021 Apr 27;80(8):1004–13.

Deodhar A,

Sliwinska-Stanczyk P,

Xu H,

Baraliakos X,

Gensler LS,

Fleishaker D,

Wang L,

Wu J,

Menon S,

Wang C,

Dina O,

Fallon L,

Kanik KS,

van der Heijde D.

A Phase 3 study assesses the efficacy and safety of tofacitinib in adults with active AS.Deodhar, et al. found that ASAS20 and ASAS40 response rate significantly increased with tofacitinib 5 mg BID versus placebo at Week 16, with improvements maintained to Week 48.There were no new safety signals detected over the course of the study....