HCPLive Podcasts

In this episode of Joint Ventures, host Rihards Buss, MD, consultant rheumatologist, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, sits down with Sarah Dyball, MBBS, PhD, academic clinical lecturer, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, and Kate Harnden, MBChB, Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, at the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) 2026 annual congress in London.
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The therapeutic framework for systemic sclerosis is undergoing a fundamental reorientation, moving away from managing visible fibrotic sequelae toward targeting the autoantibody-driven mechanisms believed to initiate and propagate disease.
On a recent episode of Joint Ventures recorded live at the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) 2026 Congress in London, host Jack Arnold, MBBS, PhD, of the University of Leeds, spoke with Vishal Kakkar, MD, also of the University of Leeds and a specialist in scleroderma, about the most consequential data emerging from the congress.
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In this episode of Joint Ventures, hosts Jack Arnold, MBBS, PhD, academic clinical lecturer in rheumatology, University of Leeds, was joined at the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) 2026 annual congress in London by Laurence Duquenne, MD, a rheumatology researcher, Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, an investigator on one of the meeting's standout studies to examine whether baseline naïve CD4+ T cell frequency can identify which newly diagnosed patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are unlikely to respond to methotrexate monotherapy, and whether adding a biologic at the outset can close that gap.
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In this episode of Joint Ventures, hosts Jack Arnold, MBBS, PhD, an academic clinical lecturer in rheumatology at the University of Leeds, and Rihards Buss, MD, a consultant rheumatologist at Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, preview their unofficial countdown of the sessions, themes, and abstracts they are most excited about heading into the 2026 European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) Annual Meeting in London, June 3–6, including: 

Obesity, Weight Management, and Psoriatic Arthritis Sessions

Personalized Medicine and Biomarkers in RMDs Sessions

Fatigue and Quality of Life in Connective Tissue Disease Session

Mitochondrial DNA and Interferon: Upstream Drivers of Autoimmunity Session

Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition in Rheumatology Sessions

Axial Imaging in Axial Spondyloarthritis Session

Head-to-Head Superiority Trials in RA and PsA Sessions

CAR-T and CAR-NK Therapies: Efficacy, Limits, and What Comes Next Sessions

In the second part of this Joint Ventures episode on B cell therapies in rheumatic disease, hosts Jack Arnold, MBBS, PhD, and Rihards Buss, MD, return with guest Lucy Carter, MBBS, PhD, to move beyond the question of how to deplete B cells and toward the more conceptually challenging problem of what happens after depletion — and whether ianalumab's dual mechanism of action represents the most rational answer yet developed.
The episode examines the biologic rationale behind combining rituximab with belimumab, reviews the landmark NEPTUNUS Sjögren disease trials in which ianalumab became the first targeted therapy to meet a phase 3 primary endpoint in the disease, and discusses how emerging therapies may ultimately reshape treatment selection, steroid reduction strategies, and long-term management of autoimmune conditions including Sjögren disease and systemic lupus erythematosus.