Dr Li Tieshi has an outstanding research and academic background. Currently, he is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska. As an avid fan soccer fan, Dr Tieshi didn’t just watch from the side lines but enjoyed playing the game. Unfortunately, an injury to...
Our gut acts as a reservoir for trillions of commensal microbiotas (organisms that derive food and other benefits without harming or benefitting their host). In healthy individuals these microorganisms do not elicit a pathological immune response. This relationship has developed over millennia with co-evolution occurring. Diet and environmental influences today...
We have all heard or been told at one point “you are what you eat.” A healthy well-balanced diet is important for all of us, but did you know as an arthritis or autoimmune patient that this saying is particularly apt? The importance of the medication and therapeutics prescribed...
As the population continues to grow so do those requiring aid and assistance. There are thousands of charities looking for donations and funding, with extremely varied needs, so how do we as individuals decide where our time and donations will have the greatest impact? How to Find Your Charity Match First and foremost,...
At ANRF we are privileged to be able to get to know the patients that will potentially benefit from the research hwe fund. These patients are an inspiration to the foundation as well as the researchers we support. Many of these patients are themselves advocates and warriors in the fight...
Conference Organizer, Professor Gail Bishop handing out travel awards supported by the ANRF. ANRF provided travel grants for upcoming scientists in their postdoctoral fellowship period to attend the 17th International Conference on the TNF Superfamily. Tumor Necrosis Factor is one of the key cytokines that...
ANRF provided travel grants for upcoming scientists in their postdoctoral fellowship period to attend the 17th International Conference on the TNF Superfamily. Tumor Necrosis Factor is one of the key cytokines that causes destructive inflammation in autoimmune diseases, and drugs that inhibit TNF, such as...
Author and activist, Effie Koliopoulos, shares her journey with juvenile arthritis (JA) and how she found strength in her writing. Fifteen years ago, right before starting her senior year of high school, she was diagnosed with polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis which was confirmed when she...
Rare diseases and diseases that present differently can be difficult to diagnose. Often a correct diagnosis may require multiple tests and specialists. In a world in which it has become easy to diagnose oneself, often incorrectly, what options exist for patients as they try to...
"It is difficult to train for a marathon; but it is even more difficult to not be able to train for a marathon."-Aaron Douglas Trimble Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) is an autoimmune form of arthritis that mainly effects the spine, causing inflammation of the vertebrae that leads...