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Pemphigoid, Bullous

Clinical development underwayEmerging research
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Publications
3
Clinical trials
2024
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What's happening now

An analyst briefing on current research, clinical, regulatory and industry activity surrounding this disease.

Therapeutic landscape

Therapies with a regulatory footing for this condition, alongside the wider set of agents co-studied with it in the literature.

Approved & established therapies
Azathioprineapproved

Approval — Jayempi is indicated in combination with other immunosuppressive agents for the prophylax… (2021)

Clinical trials

3 sponsors · 0 new · 0 completed in the last 12 months (net +0)

The current development programme across all trial phases.

Regulatory timeline

Drug regulatory events matched to this condition by indication — EMA.

First approvals
2021emaApprovalAzathioprine· Jayempi is indicated in combination with other immunosuppressive agents for the prophylaxis of transplant rejection in patients receiving allogenic kidney, liver, heart, lung or pancreas transplants. Azathioprine is indicated in immunosuppressive regimens as an adjunct to immunosuppressive agents that form the mainstay of treatment (basis immunosuppression). Jayempi is used as an immunosuppressant antimetabolite either alone or, more commonly, in combination with other agents (usually corticosteroids) and/ or procedures which influence the immune response. Jayempi is indicated in patients who are intolerant to glucocorticosteroids or if the therapeutic response is inadequate despite treatment with high doses of glucocorticosteroids, in the following diseases: severe active rheumatoid arthritis (chronic polyarthritis) that cannot be kept under control by less toxic agents (disease-modifying anti-rheumatic -medicinal products – DMARDs) auto-immune hepatitis  systemic lupus erythematosus dermatomyositis polyarteritis nodosa pemphigus vulgaris and bullous pemphigoid Behçet’s disease refractory auto-immune haemolytic anaemia, caused by warm IgG antibodies chronic refractory idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura Jayempi is used for the treatment of moderately severe to severe forms of chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) (Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis) in patients in whom glucocorticosteroid therapy is necessary, but where glucocorticosteroids are not tolerated, or in whom the disease is untreatable with other common means of first choice. It is also indicated in adult patients in relapsing multiple sclerosis, if an immunomodulatory therapy is indicated but beta interferon therapy is not possible, or a stable course has been achieved with previous treatment with azathioprine. 3 Jayempi is indicated for the treatment of generalised myasthenia gravis. Depending on the severity of the disease, Jayempi should be given in combination with glucocorticosteroids because of slow onset of action at the beginning of treatment and the glucocorticosteroid dose should be gradually reduced after several months of treatment. source ↗

European Medicines Agency (CC BY 4.0). Events are matched to this condition by drug indication text — approvals/updates for drugs indicated for it, not disease-specific acts.

Research activity

2 papers

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Publications over time
20232024
Major themes5
  • Pemphigoid, Bullous2
  • Gastrointestinal Microbiome1
  • Nervous System Diseases1
  • Parkinson Disease1
  • Stroke1
Leading journals2
  • Experimental dermatology1
  • Frontiers in immunology1
Leading researchers8
  • Andreani NA1
  • Bai Y1
  • Baines JF1
  • Benoit S1
  • Cepic A1
  • Chen J1
  • Chu M1
  • Chung CJ1
Affiliations (unnormalised)6
  • Center for Research on Inflammation of the Skin (CRIS)1
  • College of Medicine and Health Sciences1
  • Department of Dermatology and Medical Research Center Oulu1
  • Institute for Experimental Medicine1
  • Lübeck Institute of Experimental Dermatology (LIED)1
  • Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology1

Reference

Authoritative identity, definition & identifiers.

Defined in MeSH

A chronic and relatively benign subepidermal blistering disease usually of the elderly and without histopathologic acantholysis.

References & data sources
  • Disease identity & definition — NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), public domain
  • Clinical trials — ClinicalTrials.gov (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
  • Research activity — Europe PMC (EMBL-EBI) + OpenAlex-derived paper links
  • Related entities are derived from literature co-mention (studied together) — associative, not causal.