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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🎥 Last week, during #EULAR2026, the Chair of Lupus Europe's Board of Directors, Jeanette Andersen, was interviewed on EULAR TV about #LupusGPT.

Watch as she explains what #LupusGPT is and why reliable, understandable lupus information is important for patients and for lupus care.

🦋 #LupusGPT is patient-led, built with clinicians, patients and IT experts, and grounded in trusted lupus resources.

#LupusGPT is not a replacement for healthcare professionals, but it helps people better understand lupus information and prepare more informed questions for their physicians.

📺 Watch the full interview on the EULAR YouTube channel:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=plqZt7J142I

Thank you EULAR for giving space to patient-led innovation on EULAR TV!
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📣Don’t forget!

Our #EULAR2026 Recap Webinar is coming up on June 15 at 19:00 CET,

Learn some key highlights from one of our most exciting congresses in recent years, including scientific insights brought directly by speakers through short videos.

📩 Register now! email secretariat@lupus-europe.org
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✅ #EULAR2026 has finished, but we still have a lot to tell you!

🦋 Day 2 at the EULAR Congress showed why patient involvement matters across research, care, digital innovation and outcome measurement.

🥰 Lupus Europe was proud to contribute to several key sessions.

💬 Zoe Karakikla-Mitsakou, our General Secretary, presented #LupusGPT and #EasyLupus in the Meet the EULAR Expert session on AI as a partner in care, highlighting patient-led, reliable and accessible digital information.

🌍 Zoe also spoke in the session “Bridging the Gap: Expanding Rheumatology Access for Underserved and Underrepresented Communities”, sharing insights from local patient panel work in Portugal and how patient organisations can help identify real-world barriers to care, especially for people we do not always reach.
Thank you to Dr Daniel Guimaraes de Oliveira for his contribution and support in this important project.

🧩 Our Chair, Jeanette Andersen, delivered an inspiring presentation on non-pharmacological interventions in connective tissue diseases, bringing the patient perspective into discussions on physical activity, and the need for psychosocial support and personalised care beyond medication.

📊 Another highlight of the day was Jeanette co-chairing, together with Prof Laurent Arnaud, the session on measurement of disease activity in SLE clinical trials. The session explored how we measure lupus arthritis, treatment outcomes and remission, and why outcome measures must better reflect the reality of living with lupus.

💫 Our team also followed key sessions and poster tours on epidemiological data for advocacy, access and empowerment, and therapeutic advances in lupus.

And throughout the day, we continued welcoming visitors at the Lupus Europe booth, sharing our projects, tools and conversations with the wider rheumatology community.

Would you like to hear more from our team?

📅 Join our #EULAR2026 recap webinar on 15 June at 19:00 CET, Paris time.

You will hear key takeaways from our team, plus videos from some speakers explaining their presentations in patient-friendly language.

✅ To register, email secretariat@lupus-europe.org
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🤩 #EULAR2026 has been a blast!

Now it’s time to look back at some of the key lupus-related insights, data and messages from this year’s Congress.

Join Lupus Europe for our EULAR 2026 recap webinar:

📅 June 15
🕖 19:00 CET
📍 Zoom

✅ Register by sending an email to [secretariat@lupus-europe.org](mailto:secretariat@lupus-europe.org)

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