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David Isenberg

David Isenberg

Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology at University College London and leading lupus researcher; Lupus Academy steering committee member.

Sep 25, 2026

31:56
David, do you want to comment on your own presentation?
32:00
but very kind of you to invite me to do that.
32:03
So I took the view that most people will be well aware of the pros and cons of conventional treatment, mycophenolate, steroids, azathioprine, et cetera.
32:16
The hot topic, as you know, is cartesial therapy, and Dr. Pagan will discuss her work in a moment.
32:23
So I saw myself as the bit in between.
32:27
So there are clearly patients who don't do well enough on conventional treatments and for whatever reasons won't have CAR T cell therapy available.
32:38
A principal reason about that is that if you're going to make this CAR T cell therapy work for you, you have to have some serious expertise in oncology, in rheumatology, in immunology, in haematology on the site.
37:45
What do you think we learned from each of them?

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