The Rheumatology Research Foundation is now offering the Innovative Research Award for Community Practitioners; tailored for physicians interested in disease investigation, it supports research ideas specific to clinical practice. The distinct perspective of clinical rheumatologists opens a window of opportunity for disease investigation that merits support for novel research. With the increasing prevalence of rheumatic…
Disease Targeted Research Initiative may improve treatment, prevention of rheumatoid arthritis, other inflammatory diseases
A grant from the American College of Rheumatology (ACR)’s Rheumatology Research Foundation has helped Shiva Shahrara, PhD, conduct research into the molecule, IL-17, that plays a role in recruiting myeloid cells to migrate from the blood to the joint and perpetuating vascularization
The American College of Rheumatology’s new name for its research arm—the Rheumatology Research Foundation—got a thumb’s up from rheumatologists who attended the ACR’s 2012 annual meeting in Washington, D.C. last month
More than 50 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) investigators from across the U.S. recently met in Ft. Worth, Texas, to share information, present data and results from their innovative RA research projects, and brainstorm ways to work more closely together to find a cure for the disease.