John Isaacs, MD, PhD, Professor of Rheumatology and Director of the Institute of Cellular Medicine at Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne is also developing a therapy to switch off RA, however his research in my view, is far behind the Aussie team.
Both groups rely on research grants, from govts, charities & pharma, and from a purely finance perspective vaccines & cures are not as profitable as drugs that require long term subscription. Sad & unfortunate, but its the reality as the cost of product development from proof of concept to delivery is huge. I suspect a type 1 diabetes vaccine & cure will be available before RA as its a much bigger market, where the product dev cost and modest margins can be justified by the scale of the addressable market, which dwarfs RA, which is still falsely perceived as afflicting mostly older women.
I looked at VA’s own 2022 research strategy & current research, and while there are projects looking at causes, better use of existing immune suppression but none as advanced as towards a cure such as Prof Thomas’ or Dr Isaacs.
Maybe I have missed something, Thoughts anyone?
Yvonne x
It would be great to be able to curb the nightly inflammation we often suffer painfully next morning. Also sounds more affordable than major surgery for an implant.
Hope it works.
Brynmor
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good news having strong steroids injections in the knees on the 4th aug waiting for both knees being replaced daughter getting married on the 7th so i can walk her down the church with out hobbling or using sticks not looking forward to when they wear off but who cares
Yvonne
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