Chelsie Calvert was diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA) in 1992 at a mere 14 months old. She has spent a lifetime not allowing the diagnosis of JRA to define her. Rather, she has worked and continues to work hard to rise above it, carving...
Gale "Morrie" Granger (1937-2018), whose groundbreaking discoveries shaped modern therapeutic modalities in Arthritis, Immunology and Cancer, left us earlier this year at the age of 81. Morrie’s commitment to raising the next generation of thinkers was unparalleled, and his selfless dedication to ANRF remains our...
ANRF Scientific Advisory Board Chairman, Dr. Carl Ware and his team at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), announced that the first healthy subject has been dosed in a Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating LY3361237. LY3361237 is a biologic that inhibits inflammation by activating...
Peter A. Nigrovic, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is a practicing adult and pediatric rheumatologist and director of the Center for Adults with Pediatric Rheumatic Illness (CAPRI) at the Brigham and...
Held in Chicago, IL, the autumn Autoimmunology Conference 2018 was an opportunity for ANRF to foster one of their important objectives – the sponsorship and support of young innovative researchers. For more than four decades this conference has provided a collaborative platform that allows experienced...
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is an inflammatory disorder that often begins with swollen, warm and painful joints. In patients with JIA, their joints tend to "flare" up with inflammation and then subside. These flares cause aching joints on one or both sides of the body....
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) affects 1.5 million Americans and some of those are teachers, like myself, who are teaching with rheumatoid arthritis. Let me give you a little background; my name is Tiffany and I’ve been teaching high school for seven years and I was diagnosed...
Key players in the body’s defenses, macrophages are immune cells that swallow bacteria, viruses or infectious germs. When the body comes under attack, these white blood cells engulf the attackers and eliminate the threat. Like characters in a Pac-Man video game, they roam the body,...
Whenever I see a child with juvenile arthritis (JA), my heart aches. Not because it’s especially hard to see a child who lives with a difficult condition – although, of course it is – but because of something a bit different. You see, I was once...
New insights into the workings of genes are bringing hope for a revolution in scleroderma research and scleroderma treatment. Scleroderma (also called systemic sclerosis) stiffens connective tissue and decreases blood vessel formation throughout the body, scarring the skin and triggering potentially lethal damage to vital...