The IMID Forum

The Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Disease Forum
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Apr 14, 2026 • 17min

Discussing PsA: Bimekizumab in PsA: Clinical efficacy and updated safety profile

Join Professor Laura Coates and Phillip Mease as they discuss the top publications in the world of PsA. This month, the conversation covered the ‘safety and clinical efficacy of bimekizumab in patients with active PsA who were bDMARD-naïve or TNFi-IR, and the second provided a comprehensive and updated overview of bimekizumab’s safety profile to support clinical decision-making.
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Apr 9, 2026 • 38min

Author Interview: Professor Helena Marzo-Ortega, March 2026

Join Professor Peter Nash from the Griffith University in Brisbane, and Professor Helena Marzo-Ortega an academic clinician and the Clinical Lead of the multi-award winning Leeds Specialist Spondyloarthropathy service at The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, as they discuss her recent paper ‘EULAR points to consider and consensus definitions for difficult-to-manage and treatment-refractory psoriatic arthritis’.
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Mar 26, 2026 • 10min

Discussing RA: Malignancy risk in patients with RA and the evolution of JAKi prescriptions

Join Professor Iain McInnes for the latest episode of Discussing RA on The Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Disease Forum. In this episode, he will review a paper a paper on the malignancy risk in patients with RA initiating b/tsDMARDS, and the evolution of JAKi prescriptions since 2015 in an international collaboration of rheumatoid arthritis registers.
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Mar 19, 2026 • 33min

Discussing axSpA: Symptom duration impact on bimekizumab efficacy and therapeutic switching drivers

Join Dr Sofia Ramiro and Dr Atul Dheodhar as they discuss the top publications in the world of axSpA. This month, the conversation covered the impact of shorter versus longer symptom duration on the efficacy of bimekizumab and the factors associated with therapeutic switching in SpA.
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Mar 12, 2026 • 30min

Author Interview: Doctor Carlo Tur, February 2026

Join Professor Peter Nash from the Griffith University in Brisbane, and Doctor Carlo Tur, from the department of Medicine 3-Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nurnberg., as they discuss his recent paper ‘Effects of different B-cell-depleting strategies on the lymphatic tissue’.
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Mar 5, 2026 • 25min

Author Interview - Professor Andrew Cope, 2026

Join Professor Peter Nash from the Griffith University in Brisbane, and Professor Andrew Cope from the Centre for Rheumatic Diseases, King’s College London, London, UK, as they discuss his recent paper ‘Long-term outcomes of abatacept in individuals at risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (ALTO): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial’.
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Feb 27, 2026 • 9min

Discussing RA: Pain outcomes and drug effectiveness of JAK inhibitors in RA and PsA

Join Professor Iain McInnes for the latest episode of Discussing RA on The Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Disease Forum. In this episode, he will review a paper by Taylor et al. where authors report the effects of UPA and ADA on pain in patients with active RA or PsA stratified by inflammatory status, and a paper by Sonomoto et al. which shows the effectiveness of TOF, BAR, UPA and FIL in patients with RA.
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Feb 13, 2026 • 21min

Discussing PsA: Risankizumab efficacy across machine learning defined and complex PsA phenotypes

Join Professor Laura Coates and Phillip Mease as they discuss the top publications in the world of PsA. This month, the conversation covered the ‘classification of patients into distinct PsA phenotypes based on baseline demographics and clinical characteristics using a machine learning approach, and consensus-derived GRAPPA terminology, to support shared clinical decision making, and enable more effective patient stratification in both observational studies and clinical trials.
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Feb 3, 2026 • 18min

Author Interview: Professor Matthew Brown, 2026

Join Professor Peter Nash from the Griffith University in Brisbane, and Professor Matthew Brown, the Chief Scientific Officer at Genomics England, as they discuss his recent paper ‘Low uveitis rates in patients with axial spondyloarthritis treated with bimekizumab: Pooled results from Phase 2b/3 trials’.
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Jan 29, 2026 • 9min

Discussing RA: Long-term effectiveness and sex differences of JAK inhibitors in rheumatoid arthritis

Join Professor Iain McInnes for the latest episode of Discussing RA on The Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Disease Forum. In this episode, he will review a paper by Strand et al. that evaluated TOF efficacy, safety, and persistence by sex, and explored whether age-related factors contribute to differences in treatment response between males and females, and by Alten et al. that explored the long‑term effectiveness of baricitinib and other b/tsDMARDs in patients with RA with early low disease activity or remission.

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