BRI Principal Investigator Adam Lacy-Hulbert, PhD, and his team recently made a new discovery regarding how lupus is triggered. They have identified a new mechanism that prevents the immune system from reacting to the debris that leaks from cells as they die.

Dr. Lacy-Hulbert and colleagues have received a grant from The Marco J. Heidner Foundation to better understand how the newly discovered mechanism works and how to affect it and identify new targets for drug development.

Lupus is one of the most difficult autoimmune diseases to diagnose and treat. Clinicians and researchers at Virginia Mason and BRI are looking for causes and cures of the disease.

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