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Across the UK, more children and young people with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) are now starting tofacitinib. Although numbers remain small, each case provides crucial real world data that can improve care for the whole JIA community.   Yet we know from recent...

  The association between ethnicity, socioeconomic position and outcomes following initiation of methotrexate in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Mr Richard Beesley is studying for his PhD at the University of Manchester. He talks through his recent research using UK JIA...

Dr John Bowes explains his recent research from the CLUSTER consortium (which includes UK JIA Biologics Register data) looking at genetic markers predicting risk of uveitis.  Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) can sometimes lead to a serious eye problem called...

We asked UK JIA Biologics Register Co-Investigator Dr Lianne Kearsley Fleet to discuss her research: Burden of comorbid conditions in children and young people with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a collaborative analysis of 3 JIA registries , which was published in...

Research Results: Machine-learning and JIA  Dr Stephanie Shoop-Worrall discusses her latest research from the CLUSTER consortium (which includes data from the UK JIA Biologics Register). This research looks at how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help determine which...

We asked UK JIA Biologics Register Chief Investigator, Professor Kimme Hyrich, about her route to research.   What did you study, and at which University?   I grew up in Canada and did most of my university in my home city of Winnipeg, where I grew up. I did a...