News Spotlight
Repurposing Tocilizumab in Scleroderma Patients May Prevent Early Lung Disease
Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc, David Roofeh, MD, and team find that an anti-inflammatory drug used in rheumatoid arthritis can preserve lung function in patients with systemic sclerosis. Read more on Michigan Medicine Health Lab.
National Research Effort Discovers Relationship Between Inflammation, Metabolism, and Scleroderma Scarring
John Varga, MD finds NAD+ break down leads to multi organ scarring, providing now a previously undiscovered pathogenic role of the enzyme CD38 in disease scarring. Read more on Michigan Medicine Health Lab.
In the News
2021
- Repurposing Tocilizumab in Scleroderma Patients May Prevent Early Lung Disease, Michigan Medicine Health Lab, March 2021.
- New Research Finds Connection: Inflammation, Metabolism and Scleroderma Scarring, Science Daily, January 2021.
- National Research Effort Discovers Relationship Between Inflammation, Metabolism and Scleroderma Scarring, Michigan Medicine Health Lab, January 2021.
2020
- Protein Linked to Progressive Lung Scarring in Scleroderma Patients, Michigan Medicine Health Lab, December 2020.
- Positive Results for Ziritaxestat in Early Diffuse Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis, ACR Convergence Today, November 2020.
- Cell Therapy FCR001 to Enter Phase 1/2a Trial for Diffuse Cutaneous SSc, Scleroderma News, July 2020.
2019
- Abatacept: An Option in Systemic Sclerosis?, MedPage Today, July 2019.
- Scleroderma Support: Patients Find Help Online, Michigan Medicine Health Blog, June 2019.
- NIH Grants $10.2M to Find New Therapies for Autoimmune Diseases, Including Scleroderma, Scleroderma News, June 2019.
- Recent Trials Investigated Targeted Therapies for Systemic Sclerosis, The Rheumatologist, May 2019.
- Exploring New Treatments for Autoimmune Diseases, Michigan Medicine Health Lab, May 2019.
- Pulmonary Hypertension Often Occurs Early After SSc-ILD Diagnosis, Rheumatology Advisor, February 2019.
- Tocilizumab Better Than Placebo in Preserving Forced Vital Capacity in Systemic Sclerosis, Healio Rheumatology, February 2019.
- Inhibiting Cancer-Causing Protein Could Prevent Scleroderma Fibrosis, Michigan Medicine Health Lab, February 2019.
- Systemic Scleroderma Treatments: Where Are We Now?, Michigan Medicine Health Lab, January 2019.
2018
- Living with Scleroderma: Personalized Treatment & Support Makes All the Difference, Michigan Medicine Health Blog, July 2018.
2017
- Journey of Hope: Autoimmune Disease Patient Raises Funds, Promotes Education, USA Today, October 2017.
- Service Spotlight: Doc's Commitment to Patient ‘Priceless’, Michigan Medicine Headlines, October 2017.
- Cytori’s Habeo Cell Therapy Appears to Benefit Scleroderma Patients with Diffuse Form of the Disease, Scleroderma News, July 2017.
2015
- FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Actemra in Systemic Sclerosis, Scleroderma Foundation, June 2015.
2014
- Scientists Find ‘Off’ Switch for Scleroderma, Futurity, April 2014.
- Flipping the Switch on Scleroderma, MSU Today, April 2014.
Invited Lectures & Workshops
- Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc, 1st International Symposium on Interstitial Lung Disease in Rheumatic Diseases, Webinar, February 2021.
- John Varga, MD, Keynote Speaker, 2020 Japanese Dermatology Association Annual Meeting, Japan, November 2020.
- Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc, Emirates Rheumatology Academy Best of ACR Conference, United Arab Emirates, February 2020.
- Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc, Masterclass on ILD-SSc (World Scleroderma Foundation and the European Scleroderma Trials and Research Group), Florence, Italy, September 2019.
- Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc, NYU Langone Seminar in Advanced Rheumatology, New York, March 2019.
- Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc, 55th Annual André Aisenstadt Memorial Clinical Day, Montreal, Canada, October 2018.
- Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc, Emirates Society of Rheumatology and American College of Rheumatology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, September 2018.
- Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc, Scleroderma Foundation’s National Patient Education Conference, Pennsylvania, July 2018.
- Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc, Monsoon Rheumatology Summit, Cochin, India, July 2018.
- Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc, 18th Singapore Society of Rheumatology-Malaysian Society of Rheumatology Workshops in Rheumatology, Singapore, August 2017.
- Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc, Advanced Rheumatology Course, Indian Rheumatology Association, Bangalore, India, August 2016.
- Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc, APLAR 2015 Meeting (American College of Rheumatology), Chennai, India, September 2015.
- Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc, 3rd Systemic Sclerosis World Congress, Rome, Italy. February 2014.
- Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc, New Zealand Rheumatology Association Annual Meeting, New Zealand, August 2013.
- Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc, EULAR Annual Meeting, Madrid, Spain, June 2013.
Awards & Recognition
- Scleroderma Program peer mentors, Sheri Hicks and Mary Alore, are recognized by the Office of Patient Experience. December 2020.
- Jody Fisher, Program Manager of the Scleroderma Program, is nominated for an Evan Newport HOPE Award. December 2017.
- Eliza Tsou, PhD, receives the Marta Marx Fund for the Eradication of Scleroderma. February 2016.
- Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc, is awarded the American College of Rheumatology Henry Kunkel Young Investigator Award, which is given to a young physician scientist, age 45 or younger by October 1 of the year in which they are nominated, who has made outstanding and promising independent contributions to basic or clinical research in the field of rheumatology. December 2015.
- The Prospective Registry of Systemic Sclerosis (PRESS) is featured in Scleroderma Voice magazine. The PRESS Registry recently received the Scleroderma Foundation Collaborative Research (SCORE) grant. August 2015.
- U-M researchers, Dinesh Khanna, MD, MSc and Cathie Spino, ScD, receive $7M to study scleroderma treatment. January 2015.
