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ACR 2025 | Top abstracts: What’s hot in lupus?

By Haimanti Mandal

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Oct 22, 2025


To help navigate the exciting content being presented at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Convergence 2025, October 24–29, 2025, Chicago, US, the Lupus Hub Steering Committee members have provided their recommendations for the top abstracts to look out for in lupus.

ACR 2025 | Top abstracts in lupus

 

Oral presentations: Sunday, October 26
Abstract TitlePresenterTime (CDT)
0801Achieving sustained lupus low disease activity state and remission with Ianalumab (VAY736) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: A post hoc analysis from a phase II studyEd Vital13:00–13:15
0802Remission from cutaneous manifestations of lupus with enpatoran, a first-in-class oral small molecule toll-like receptor 7/8 inhibitor: Pooled post-hoc exploratory analysis from a randomized placebo-controlled phase II studyEric Morand13:15–13:30
0803Improved efficacy and safety outcomes in patients with SLE treated with belimumab (BEL) versus immunosuppressants (IS), in addition to antimalarials (AM) and glucocorticoids (GC): A post hoc summary of five phase 3 trialsMariele Gatto13:30–13:45

 

Oral presentations: Wednesday, October 29
Abstract TitlePresenterTime (CDT)
2650LFA-REAL outperforms SLEDAI and BILAG in detecting clinical change in lupus activityAlberto Nordmann-Gomes10:45–11:00
2694Effect of deucravacitinib treatment on renal dysfunction–associated plasma biomarkers from a phase 2 study in patients with systemic lupus erythematosusAmit Saxena11:45–12:00
2696Biomarker data from an open-label, phase 1/2 study for YTB323 (rapcabtagene autoleucel, a rapidly manufactured CD19 CAR-T therapy) suggest reset of the B cell compartment in severe refractory SLEEric Morand12:15–12:30

 

Posters 
Abstract TitlePresenterDate and time (CDT)
0640Impact of clinically important improvements in patient-reported outcomes on disease activity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus treated with upadacitinib or placebo: Results from the phase 2 SLEek studyVibeke Strand

Sunday, October 26,

10:30–12:30

0645Achievement of low disease activity and remission in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus treated with dapirolizumab pegol: 48-week results from a phase 3 trialEric Morand

Sunday, October 26,

10:30–12:30

0650Obinutuzumab demonstrates steroid-sparing effects and consistent benefit in patients with lupus nephritis when using multiple primary endpoint definitions: A secondary analysis of phase III trial resultsBrad Rovin

Sunday, October 26,

10:30–12:30

1519Post-hoc analysis of sustained response over time in systemic lupus erythematosus patients treated with cenerimod in CARE (phase 2 B) study

Anca Askanase

 

Monday, October 27,

10:30–12:30

1529Updated phase 1 trial data assessing the tolerability, efficacy, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of BMS-986353 (CC-97540), a CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor t cell therapy using a next-generation process for severe, refractory SLEGeorg Schett

Monday, October 27,

10:30–12:30

1532Preliminary safety, efficacy, and cellular kinetics of CTA313, a CD19/BCMA dual-targeted universal CAR-T therapy, for active systemic lupus erythematosusJan Davidson-Moncada

Monday, October 27,

10:30–12:30

1545Efficacy and safety of subcutaneous anifrolumab in systemic lupus erythematosus: Interim analysis of a phase 3 randomized placebo-controlled studySusan Manzi

Monday, October 27,

10:30–12:30

2445Achievement of treat to target measures with upadacitinib in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: Phase 2 randomized sleek clinical trial resultsEric Morand

Tuesday, October 28,

10:30–12:30

2458Obecabtagene autoleucel (obe-cel), a CD19-targeting autologous chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy (CAR T) with a fast off-rate binding domain, in patients (pts) with severe, refractory systemic lupus erythematosus (srSLE): Preliminary results from the phase I CARLYSLE studyMaria Leandro

Tuesday, October 28,

10:30–12:30

2464IMC-002 (IMM0306), a first-in-class bi-specific fusion protein, demonstrates improvements in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) disease activity measures and biomarkers in patients with moderate to severe active SLE in the Open-label phase 1b/2 studyQian Zheng

Tuesday, October 28,

10:30–12:30

2465CD19/BCMA dual-targeting FasTCAR-T cells GC012F (AZD0120) in patients with refractory systemic lupus erythematosus: An open-label, single-center phase I studyQiong Fu

Tuesday, October 28,

10:30–12:30

2466Efficacy and safety results of zetomipzomib from the PALIZADE phase 2b clinical trial in patients with lupus nephritisRichard A. Furie

Tuesday, October 28,

10:30–12:30

2468RESET-SLE: Clinical trial evaluating rese-cel (Resecabtagene Autoleucel), a fully human, autologous 4-1BB CD19-CAR T cell therapy in non-renal SLE and lupus nephritisSaira Sheikh

Tuesday, October 28,

10:30–12:30

LB10Four-year safety and efficacy of deucravacitinib in systemic lupus erythematosus: Results from a phase 2 programEric Morand

Tuesday, October 28,

10:30–12:30

LB13Obinutuzumab leads to deep B-cell depletion in the kidney parenchyma of patients with lupus nephritis: An exploratory analysis of the REGENCY trialBrad H. Rovin

Tuesday, October 28,

10:30–12:30

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