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Maximising Impact of Prescription Drugs in Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Biomarkers for optimising rheumatoid arthritis treatments

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic immune-mediated disorder associated with joint swelling, stiffness, and loss of physical function and mobility. Although there are many available drugs on the market for RA, their use is still limited by lack of biomarkers to allow proper selection of treatments, and their suboptimal dosing. To address this problem, the EU-funded SQUEEZE project aims to validate a number of clinical, molecular and behavioural biomarkers that help select the right drug for the right patient and optimise drug dosing/routing. Implementation of this work is expected to provide treatment of RA with the greatest safety and therapeutic efficacy for each patient.

Objective

The SQUEEZE consortium comprehensively addressed how biomarkers can be used to optimize disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). RA is a chronic immune-mediated disease with enormous health-related quality of life and socioeconomic impact. A broad choice of DMARDs with different targets is up to date available in clinical care, however without sufficient markers indicating the best choice for a particular patient, treatment strategies can be ineffective, cumbersome and expensive. The team of leading academic centres with a first-class record in translational and clinical research, together with patients and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) has set out to deliver a collaborative programme to advance the clinical application of biomarkers to improve benefit, safety, and value of approved DMARDs. SQUEEZE utilizes models from data science, clinical trials, translational science, and behavioural science to engage in a complementary, synergistic, and non-overlapping manner addressing the use of biomarkers to improve the ability to select the DMARD with the highest likelihood of fitting the immunophenotypic and clinical profile of the patient, to optimise dose and route of existing DMARDs; and to inform an innovative model of care focusing on patients preferences and needs to increase adherence to prescribed drugs. Through nine dedicated work packages SQUEEZE integrates to validate clinical, laboratory, molecular, digital and behavioural biomarkers to enable the recognition of patients with high likelihood of response to treatment and the selection of the drug with highest chance of benefit for an individual patient; and as such improve efficacy and safety of existing therapies (by squeezing the most out of existing drugs) in synergy with other EU-wide activities.

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Coordinator

MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN
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€ 2 667 223,75
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SPITALGASSE 23
1090 Wien
Austria

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Ostösterreich Wien Wien
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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