Joint Ventures: Aiming for Targeted First-Line Therapy in Early RA at EULAR 2026

In this episode of Joint Ventures, hosts Jack Arnold, MBBS, PhD, academic clinical lecturer in rheumatology, University of Leeds, was joined at the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) 2026 annual congress in London by Laurence Duquenne, MD, a rheumatology researcher, Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, an investigator on one of the meeting's standout studies to examine whether baseline naïve CD4+ T cell frequency can identify which newly diagnosed patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are unlikely to respond to methotrexate monotherapy, and whether adding a biologic at the outset can close that gap.
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