News and Announcements

All participants have successfully completed their trial treatment on BEAT Lupus!

Thank you to all the participants that took part in this trial.

The BEAT Lupus protocol has been published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ Open), which is fantastic news!

To read the article please click on this link:

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/12/e032569

Recruitment has now officially ended for the BEAT Lupus study!

The last two patients were randomised by UCLH and recruitment closed on the 30th March.

We have recruited and randomised a total of 52 patients across 16 sites.

Thank you to all patients and staff for helping to reach this total!

Since the last update, Freeman Hospital in Newcastle and Mile End Hospital in London have randomised their first patients. There have now been a further 8 patients randomised since December bringing the total to 50 recruited to BEAT Lupus!

The trial has been granted approval to extend recruitment until the end of March 2019.

Since the last update, a further 4 patients have been randomised bringing the total to 42 recruited to BEAT Lupus!

The trial has been granted approval to extend recruitment until mid- February 2019.  With this extension we are aiming to achieve our target of 50 patients!