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Lupus Pipeline Could See Momentum Following Two New US Approvals

Lupus Therapeutics Sees Improved Outlook For Challenging Area Of Drug Development

 
• By Jessica Merrill

Albert Roy, executive director of the clinical research arm of the Lupus Research Alliance, talked to Scrip about the outlook for lupus drug development.

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Lupus Therapeutics hopes to see advances in drug development for SLE And LN • Source: Shutterstock

Two recent US Food and Drug Administration approvals of lupus nephritis treatments are a positive signal for future drug development in this notoriously challenging disease, Lupus Therapeutics executive director Albert Roy said in a recent interview with Scrip.

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