All around the world, scientists, academics, Doctors are looking for better treatments for people living with lupus. The complexity of the disease makes this search difficult, but many promising tracks are pursued with thousands of patients involved in clinical trials. The research is taking place in locations all over the world, maybe also close to your home.

Whether you just have an intellectual interest for the topic and would like to see what research is taking place where, or would like to become personally involved by enrolling in a clinical trial, here are links that will help you find the most current information. Our search link will direct you either to Clinicaltrials.gov (the global database of all clinical trials around the world), or to antidote.match, a platform identifying, based on few questions, which clinical trials are taking place near your home  for your condition

Lupus Clinical Research all around the world

Reach directly the active lupus trials from clinical trials.gov and be amazed by the quantity of on going research

Systemic Lupus Clinical trials near your home

If you want to find a clinical trial near you and have SYSTEMIC Lupus Erythematosus

Lupus Nephritis Clinical trials near your home

If you want to find a clinical trial near you and have LUPUS NEPHRITIS (Kidneys affected by systemic lupus)

Cutaneous Lupus Clinical trials near your home

If you want to find a clinical trial near you and have CUTANEOUS Lupus erythematosus

We hope the above links will be of use to you. LUPUS EUROPE has done its best to avoid any commercial bias in the data presented using the above links. Making the decision to participate in a clinical trial is your personal choice, to be made together with your trusted doctor. If you want to know more about clinical trials, we recommend you click on the link below. This will take you to EUPATI’s “An Introduction to Clinical Research” page where you can watch a short video that explains the essentials of a clinical trial:

https://toolbox.eupati.eu/resources/an-introduction-to-clinical-research/ 

You can also watch the following video where Jeanette Andersen, Chair of Lupus Europe and EUPATI fellow, and Marta Mosca, Coordinator of the ERN ReCONNET and Associate Professor in Rheumatology at the University of Pisa, discuss lupus, how patients can contribute to research and clinical trials and much more:

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We are very proud to share that LupusGPT has now been published in The Lancet Rheumatology, one of the world’s leading medical journals in rheumatology.

For us, this is not only about a publication. It is about what LupusGPT stands for.

LupusGPT is free. It is patient-led. And it was built to help people living with lupus find reliable, accessible information in almost any language.

It began with a simple but important question: what could become possible if patients, clinicians, and digital experts truly worked together from the start?

That question was first opened up in a fishbowl discussion at the European Lupus Meeting 2024 on how the lupus community could get the best, but not the worst, out of AI. From there, LupusGPT was shaped through the care, intelligence, and effort of many people: volunteers, patient testers, clinicians testing across languages, people who gave feedback, and people already helping us share it with patients in clinics, organisations, and communities.

This publication matters because it shows that patient-led innovation belongs in the scientific world too. It shows that when patient voice is not added at the end, but built in from the start, something real can grow.

A heartfelt thank you to all authors: Zoe Karakikla-Mitsakou, Alain Cornet, Jeanette Andersen, Sarah Dyball, Cristiana Sieiro Santos, Daniel Guimarães de Oliveira, and Laurent Arnaud. Special thanks also to Daniel Guimarães de Oliveira for the thought, care, and belief he brought to this work, and to Professor Laurent Arnaud for his outstanding support, steadiness, and guidance.

And above all, thank you to everyone in the Lupus Europe community who keeps showing us why this matters.

LupusGPT. Free. Multilingual. Patient-led. And now part of the scientific record.

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🚨 Today is #WORDDAY2026! Which stands for WOrld Young Rheumatic Disease Day.

🌍 Through this global event, we can spread the word that children and young people get rheumatic diseases like lupus, too.

‼️ It is estimated that around 15-20% of #lupus patients are children, although it is rare that a child develops lupus before 5 years of age.

As with adult patients, the cause of lupus remains unknown, and there is a great choice of treatments to keep the disease under control.

🔴 On average, it takes nearly 6 years for people with lupus to be diagnosed. This delay in diagnosis, and therefore in treatment, can have an impact on the prognosis and quality of life of patients; this includes kids.

😰 The moment your child gets a diagnosis might be overwhelming for you. This feeling of overwhelm can and does go away with time and with access to the right information.

👉 Remember: it is impossible to learn everything about #lupus overnight! Your child's doctor is the best source of information.

Apart from pharmacological treatment, other non-pharmacological measures can also help in lupus management.

📷 Take a look at the images we are sharing today to learn about these non-pharmacological measures and share them with your community to help us raise awareness.

🐺 Lupus can seem scary at first. Remember that you are not alone and that you are going to do a great job!

Turn to your lupus association for support.

🤗 There are many organisations across Europe that can help you and your child cope with the disease.

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