EULAR Abstract Awards

EULAR bestows Abstract Awards to the first authors of abstracts submitted to the EULAR Annual European Congress. Winners are selected by the EULAR Scientific Programme Committee based on the quality of the abstracts' scientific content. The award ceremony takes place at the EULAR Annual European Congress' Opening plenary session.

 

Winners of EULAR Awards 2019

 

Undergraduate

• Roline Krol, Netherlands 
  DEVELOPMENT OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE DURING TREATMENT WITH ETANERCEPT IN PATIENTSWITH JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS.
• Huiyi Zhu, China
  IDENTIFICATION OF SIX DERMATOMYOSITIS SUBGROUPS USING PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS-BASED CLUSTER ANALYSIS.
• He Chen, China
  MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION AND STRATIFICATION OF IDIOPATHIC INFLAMMATORY MYOPATHIES: ON THE BASIS OF SKELETAL MUSCLE TRANSCRIPTOME STUDY.

 

Basic science

• Olivier Malaise, Belgium 
  REVEALING THE LINK BETWEEN OSTEOARTHRITIS DEVELOPMENT AND MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL SENESCENCE.
• Richard Stratton, United Kingdom
  SYNTHETIC PEPTIDES TARGETING CD206 INHIBIT PATHOGENIC MACROPHAGES IN SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS.
• John Bowes, United Kingdom 
  GENETICS OF JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS: THE IDENTIFICATION OF A NOVEL RISK LOCUS AND CLINICAL SUBGROUP ANALYSIS.
• Kate Duffus, United Kingdom
  DISSECTING THE LONG-RANGE GENE REGULATION OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITISRISK ENHANCERS AT THE 5Q11 LOCUS USING THE COMPLEMENTARY APPROACHES OF CRISPRA AND CRISPRI.
• Remy Pollock, Canada
  CHARACTERIZING THE EPIGENOMIC LANDSCAPE OF PSORIASIS PATIENTS DESTINED TO DEVELOP PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS.
• Anastasia Filia, Greece
  RNA SEQUENCING AND MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES PREDICT MAJOR ORGAN INVOLVEMENT IN PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS.

 

Clinical

• Lianne Kearsley-Fleet, United Kingdom
  WHAT TO CHOOSE: A SECOND TNFI OR AN ALTERNATIVE CLASS OF BIOLOGIC FOR PATIENTS WITH JIA WHO HAVE FAILED THEIR FIRST TNFI.
• Ai Li Yeo, Australia
  LESS IS MORE: ANA-LYSING THE IMPACT OF REPEATED ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY TESTING.
• Yuzaiful Yusof, United Kingdom
  PREDICTING SEVERE INFECTION IN REPEAT CYCLES OF RITUXIMAB AND EFFECTS OF HYPOGAMMAGLOBULINAEMIA FOR THE TREATMENT OF RHEUMATIC AND MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES.
• Fenne Wouters, Netherlands 
  DO MRI-DETECTED EROSIONS IN PATIENTS WITH CLINICALLY SUSPECT ARTHRALGIA PREDICT PROGRESSION TO RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS? A LONGITUDINAL STUDY.
• Hirotaka Matsuo, Japan
  GENOME-WIDE META-ANALYSIS REVEALED MULTIPLE NOVEL LOCI ASSOCIATED WITH SERUM URIC ACIDLEVELS IN JAPANESE.
• Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold, Norway
  FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION IN SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS: A DOUBLE-BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED RANDOMIZED PILOT TRIAL.

 

Health Professionals

• Ross Wilkie, United Kingdom
  TARGETS FOR REDUCING PREMATURE MORTALITY IN OLDER ADULTS WITH OSTEOARTHRITIS: RESULTS FROM A NOVEL PATH ANALYSIS WITHIN A COX PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL.
• Else Marit H. Gravås, Norway 
  DOES OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY DELAY OR REDUCE THE PROPORTION OF PATIENTS WHO RECEIVES THUMB CARPOMETACARPAL SURGERY? A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL.
• Lindsay  Bearne, United Kingdom
  THE PREVALENCE AND IMPACT OF FATIGUE IN PEOPLE WITH PRIMARY ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME: A MIXED METHODS STUDY.

 

PARE

• Tinja Saarela, Finland
  GEOCACHING AS AN ENCOURAGEMENT FOR BEING ACTIVE.