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Vibrant Emotional Health (Vibrant), one of the nation’s leading mental health organizations and administrator of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (988 Lifeline), is announcing its fourth Annual Disaster Behavioral Health Conference, a pivotal event taking place from October 1-3, 2024, at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Downtown in Nashville, Tennessee. Keynote Speakers Include: Jessi… Read More

The Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) announced the recipients of the 2024 Lupus Insight Prize to Marko Radic, Ph.D., The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and Georg Schett, M.D., Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, for their groundbreaking discoveries in utilizing CAR T cell therapy to potentially revolutionize lupus treatment.

The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) announces that Love Collins, III, has joined as Vice President of Advancement.

Research  that provided much of the foundation for the development of CAR-T cell therapy, the first-generation cell therapy approach currently in clinical development, for lupus was funded in part by the Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) Lupus Innovation Award grant in 2014 to Marko Radic, Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Lupus Therapeutics, and… Read More

New advances in CAR T-cell treatment have demonstrated a successful approach for long-term remission of lupus–or even a permanent cure. Researchers led by Dr. Rita Kansal at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis began evaluating the idea of using CAR T-cell therapy for lupus by creating two different Lupus disease models in… Read More