touchIMMUNOLOGY coverage of EULAR 2025: The 2025 European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) Congress brought together leading rheumatologists, immunologists, and allied healthcare professionals from across Europe and beyond. Running from June 11–14 in Barcelona, the conference showcased the latest advances in immune-mediated ...
At EULAR 2025, Dr Marina Magrey presented week 52 data from the BE MOBILE 1 and 2 trials, highlighting comparable efficacy of bimekizumab in male and female patients with axial spondyloarthritis. Despite baseline sex differences in symptom duration and disease burden, over 50% of patients achieved ASAS40, supporting bimekizumab’s effectiveness across both radiographic and non-radiographic axSpA.
The Phase II ARGO trial evaluated the IL-17A and IL-17F inhibitor sonelokimab in psoriatic arthritis, showing promising clinical efficacy and significant improvements in patient-reported outcomes (PROs). In this interview, Prof. Laure Gossec highlights how sonelokimab reduced disease burden and improved quality of life, emphasizing the importance of PROs in assessing treatment effectiveness and guiding future development.
To gain expert insight into the most impactful developments of the past year and the trends set to shape the next, we reached out to our esteemed expert faculty. From advances in targeted therapies to the integration of AI and steps towards precision medicine, here’s what our experts had to say.
On September 23, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved bimekizumab-bkzx (BIMZELX®, UCB) for the treatment of active psoriatic arthritis (PsA), active non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (nr-axSpA) with objective signs of inflammation and active ankylosing spondylitis (AS).1 This makes bimekizumab-bkzx ...
In our late-breaking abstract coverage, we spoke with Prof. Denis Poddubnyy from Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin to discuss key data from EULAR 2024 on axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). We first explored the open-label extension results of the phase 3 BE MOBILE 2 study (NCT04436640), which assessed bimekizumab's impact on 2-year radiographic progression in the spine of patients with radiographic axSpA. Hypothesized to offer superior inhibition of bone formation due to its dual action on IL-17A and IL-17B, bimekizumab's findings were compared with other treatments like ixekizumab, upadacitinib, secukinumab, and certolizumab pegol, highlighting implications for clinical practice. Additionally, we examined a recent study by Berg et al., which compared remote monitoring and patient-triggered monitoring to traditional face-to-face consultations. The discussion focuses on how these findings could influence daily practice, patient outcomes, and healthcare resource management.
Axial spondyloarthritis is a chronic, inflammatory rheumatic disease that affects the axial skeleton, causing severe pain, stiffness and fatigue. touchIMMUNOLOGY were delighted to speak with Dr Fabian Proft (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany) about the treatment paradigm and unmet needs ...
BE MOBILE 1 and BE MOBILE 2 are double-blind, phase 3 trials designed to evaluate efficacy and safety of bimekizumab, a novel dual interleukin (IL)-17A and IL-17F inhibitor, across the axial spondyloarthritis spectrum. touchIMMUNOLOGY were delighted to speak with Dr ...
Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a typical complication of psoriasis (PSO) that is often accompanied by nail PSO, vertebral and/or pelvic involvement, enthesitis and iritis. PsA leads to the destruction and/or ankylosis of the peripheral joints or spine, resulting ...
Bimekizumab, a monoclonal IgG1 antibody that selectively inhibits both IL-17F and IL‑17A, was recently investigated in the phase 3 BE MOBILE 1 (NCT03928704) and BE MOBILE 2 (NCT03928743) clinical trials for active non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis and ankylosing spondylitis, respectively. touchIMMUNOLOGY were ...
BE MOBILE 1 (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03928704) is a a phase 3 study investigating bimekizumab in the treatment of active non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis. touchIMMUNOLOGY were delighted to speak with Prof. Xenofon Baraliakos (Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet Herne, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) around the aims of ...
The seronegative spondyloarthritides are a group of inflammatory arthropathies that are related in aspects of their clinical and radiographic presentations and genetic predisposition. Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and axial spondyloarthritis (AxSpA) are two of the major diseases classified under this umbrella, ...
Prof. Atul Deodhar (Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA) kindly took the time to discuss the 3-yr interim health-related quality of life (HRQoL) data from the phase 2b BE AGILE study (NCT02963506) and its open-label extension (NCT03355573) investigating ...
Prof. Laure Gossec (Sorbonne Universite, Paris, France) kindly took the time to speak with touchIMMUNOLOGY about the long-term impact of the IgG1 inhibitor, bimekizumab, on patient-reported outcomes from the phase 2b BE ACTIVE study (NCT02969525) and its open-label extension (NCT03347110). ...
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