Lupus Research Alliance Honors Carola Vinuesa, MD, PhD, for Discovering a Specific Gene Variant that Causes Lupus in Some Patients (IMAGE)

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Lupus Research Alliance Honors Carola Vinuesa, MD, PhD, for Discovering a Specific Gene Variant that Causes Lupus in Some Patients

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The Lupus Research Alliance awarded its 2023 Lupus Insight Prize to Carola Vinuesa, MD, PhD, of The Francis Crick Institute, for her seminal discovery that a mutation in a specific human gene causes systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), uncovering an important target for the development of novel treatment.

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