The IMID Forum

Join Professor Peter Nash from the Griffith University in Brisbane, and Dr Mahta Mortezavi, a Clinical Director for Drug Discovery and Early Development as part of the Anti-infectives Research Unit at Pfizer, as they discuss her recent paper ‘Rheumatoid arthritis disease activity and adverse events in patients receiving tofacitinib or tumour necrosis factor inhibitors: a post hoc analysis of ORAL Surveillance.’

Join Professor Peter Nash from the Griffith University in Brisbane, as well as Professors Andrew Cope, Professor of Rheumatology and Head of the Centre for Rheumatic Diseases at Kings College London, Professor Paul Emery, Clinical Professor and Director of the Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, and Professor John Isaacs, Professor of clinical immunology and Director of Newcastle Biomedicine Versus Arthritis Experimental Arthritis Treatment Centre. Together they discuss the recent paper ‘Abatacept in individuals at high risk of rheumatoid arthritis (APIPPRA): a randomised, double-blind, multicentre, parallel, placebo-controlled, phase 2b clinical trial’, published in The Lancet on 13th February 2024.

Join Professor Peter Nash from the Griffith University in Brisbane, and Dr Kehinde Sunmboye, a consultant rheumatologist at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, in this episode of the Author Interview series. Dr Sunmboye discusses his recent paper 'Cardiovascular safety of Janus Kinase inhibitor therapy in a multi-ethnic population' with Professor Nash in this exclusive interview.

Join Professor Andrea Rubbert-Roth, a doctor of rheumatology, as she discusses the incidence of malignancy in rheumatology patients, the impact of EMA guidance on Jack inhibitors prescribing in Switzerland, the use of UVA poova treatment, and the challenges of long-term immunosuppression after oncology treatment.

Join Professor Iain McInnes in this month's CSF Podcast, where he discusses the latest information and data in rheumatology. In this episode, he discusses two papers that compare the efficacy and safety of JAK inhibitors as RA therapies. In our first paper, Shinya Hayashi and his colleagues carried out a retrospective study to compare the efficacy of JAK inhibitors in treating RA. For our second paper, Christina Charles-Schoeman and her colleagues compared the incidence of MACE and VTE in RA and PsA patients treated with upadacitinib, adalimumab and MTX.

Join Philip Mease, Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Director of Rheumatology Research at the Swedish Medical Centre in Seattle, USA, and Laura Coates, an Associate Professor, NIHR clinician scientist and senior clinical research fellow at the Oxford Psoriatic Arthritis Centre, as they discuss two important topics from the world of contemporary PsA treatment. The first of the publications they will be reviewing sought to compare patient characteristics and efficacy and safety of advanced therapies between male and female patients with PsA participating in RCTs. They then go on to discuss a second publication describing malignancies in patients with a variety of rheumatic conditions treated with upadacitinib or active comparators.

Join Doctor Sofia Ramiro as she is joined by Professors Atul Deodhar and Xenofon Baraliakos to discuss the latest top clinical research in the world of axSpA. In the first paper discussed, the authors evaluated the efficacy and safety of tofacitinib in bDMARD-naïve and TNF-IR AS patients. The second paper presents the results of two parallel clinical trials that investigated the safety and efficacy of bimekizumab.

Join Doctor Sofia Ramiro as she is joined by Professors Atul Deodhar and Xenofon Baraliakos to discuss the latest top clinical research in the world of axSpA. In the first paper discussed, the authors evaluated the efficacy and safety of tofacitinib in bDMARD-naïve and TNF-IR AS patients. The second paper presents the results of two parallel clinical trials that investigated the safety and efficacy of bimekizumab.

Join Peter Nash, Professor at the School of Medicine, Griffith University, and Director of the Rheumatology Research Unit on the Sunshine Coast, Australia, Philip Mease, Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and Director of Rheumatology Research at the Swedish Medical Centre in Seattle, USA, as well as Laura Coates, an Associate Professor, NIHR clinician scientist and senior clinical research fellow at the Oxford Psoriatic Arthritis Centre as they discuss two intriguing aspects of the contemporary PsA treatment landscape. The first of the publications relates to the effects of gender on disease characteristics, treatment impact and treatment persistence. The second publication explores the long-term safety profile of guselkumab in the treatment of PsO and PsA.

Join Professor Iain McInnes in this month's CSF Podcast, where he discusses the latest information and data in rheumatology. In this episode, he discusses two papers that look at the incidence of disease. The first paper, the GBD 2021 Other Musculoskeletal Disorders Collaborators systematically analysed the global burden of musculoskeletal disorders, and used these data to predict prevalence up to 2050 and the second paper, Yvette Meissner and her colleagues used the German RABBIT registry to investigate the relationship between MACE risk and JAK inhibitors, TNF inhibitors, and DMARDs. To access detailed summary slides for the papers discussed today, visit cytokinesignalling.com.