The #EULAR Research Committee held an inspiring meeting in Ghent a few days ago: shaping ideas and building tools to support and empower researchers in Europe and beyond! I enjoyed being part of it and left with a big smile on my face! Thanks to All!

🎉 What a privilege to witness two of our researchers earn the prize of Researcher of the Month! Daniela and Daniel have spearheaded an essential part of our research on Covid-19 vaccination in immunosuppressed patients. Congratulations! 👏youtube.com/watch?v=Jx30A3…

We have finally come to a point where we can start thinking about treatment strategies other than discussing GC dosing schemes in PMR! Check my thoughts on this topic in a recent editorial: 👉 nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… Let us get this sorted!

👏 Heartfelt congratulations to Leonhard Heinz, a brilliant research leader from our division, for publishing on a new inhibitor of proinflammatory responses. A collaborative effort with Giulio Superti-Furga, Manuele Rebsamen and the Yang Lab 👉 nature.com/articles/s4146…

What is the right primary endpoint for RA clinical trials? ACR20? 50? 70? Two researchers from our group, Victoria Konzett and Andreas Kerschbaumer drew a comprehensive conclusion for superiority assessment of placebo-controlled RA trials.👉 ard.bmj.com/content/early/…

Dietary interventions possibly affect #arthritis severity. In our latest publication, we found that amino-acid deprivation reduces arthritis by suppressing IRF1-STAT1 signaling in FLS which impairs immune cells recruitment to the joint. Check it out 👉acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

It's official! 🎉 Our lab will be part of the #FWF -funded PhD Program "SHIELD" organized by Maria Sibilia to better understand the balance of pathogen elimination and tissue destruction. We are excited to collaborate with such an outstanding panel of scientists !

Osteoclasts are known to derive from myeloid precursor cells, however, the exact nature of these precursors is still debated in the field. Our new study shows that conventional, differentiated dendritic cells are major precursors for osteoclasts: 📣 ard.bmj.com/content/early/…

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (un.org/en/observances…), and we are hereby expressing our gratitude and support to all women in science or supporting science at our division (pictured below), and all over the world!

Our division recently gathered to discuss science and brew new ideas within the Austrian Alps. ⛰️ The meeting fertilized the work of each research group with the minds and spirit of the whole team. A unique booster for the projects and a wonderful start in our scientific year! 🔎

Shout-out to Paul Studenic and Andreas Kerschbaumer, two outstanding young Researchers from our Division who won the prestigious Habilitation (Paul) and Dissertation (Andreas) awards during the Regine Kapeller-Adler Lecture three weeks ago (lnkd.in/dJHYJCXP)👏

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are rare diseases leading to severe physical disability that suffer from a challenging diagnostic establishment. We determined the weight attributed to muscle biopsies in diagnosing IIM 👉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🎉Our brilliant PhD student Nasim Nakhost Lotfi won the Poster Presentation Award at the 6thDigital Rheumatology Day, highlighting the excellence of her research on establishing #DigitalHealth in the clinical practice of #Rheumatology. Well done Nasim !👏

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM), a rare condition causing severe disabilities, can lead to Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD), an even-more devastating manifestation. Our team found that PET imaging of FAPi-uptake is a biomarker for ILD. 👉 tinyurl.com/y4nsfc3b

A picture tells more than a thousand words... thank you all for sharing that moment with me, and for making the @EULAR 2024 Congress an unforgettable event!!

Both as her supervisor and as head of the Division of Rheumatology, I couldn’t be prouder of Victoria Konzett , a very talented PhD student and rheumatology trainee, for becoming Researcher of the Month by the Medical University of Vienna this July! 👏 youtube.com/watch?v=EC9kKW…

Our Horizon-Europe Project SQUEEZE an impressive showing and engagement at this latest edition of #EULAR2024 last month! Thank you to all contributing members for organizing and manning such a successful booth!

We found a new role for the metabolite itaconate as a key regulator of bone formation in our latest study, spearheaded by our talented PhD student Markus Kieler: ard.bmj.com/content/early/… Congratulations to all co-authors!