NIH researchers reveal new insights about the relationship between hair and hair follicles and the skin’s immune system.

The NIAMS Update is produced and distributed by the NIAMS Science Communications and Outreach Branch. It is an online resource for the NIAMS Coalition, Council, and Colleagues. Director’s Letter: Amping Up Our Investment in Autoimmune Disease Research The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Foundation for the NIH (FNIH), eight pharmaceutical companies, and five nonprofit organizations have partnered to further our understanding of the cellular and molecular disease pathways in autoimmune and immune-mediated diseases. The Accelerating Medicines Partnership®: Autoimmune and Immune-Mediated Diseases (AMP® AIM) program will advance the discovery of disease mechanisms and therapeutic targets in rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis

Dear Colleagues, From the Hippocratic corpus, the author writes, “I consider the responsibility of medicine to be to entirely relieve the suffering of the sick and to blunt the extremities of disease” (The Art 3.4-7)1. Note that despite the acknowledgment that disease may only be blunted, in promoting health it is our duty to relieve suffering wherever possible.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE NATIONAL ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES ADVISORY COUNCIL MINUTES OF THE 104th MEETING August 31st, 2021 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. August 31, 2021 Council Webcast I. CALL TO ORDER The 105th meeting of the National Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Advisory Council (NAMSAC) was held on August 31, 2021, via videoconference. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Lindsey A. Criswell, Director, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS). Attendance Council members present: Ms. Karen M. Ball, President and CEO, The Sturge-Weber Foundation Dr. Joan M

A researcher from Stanford University asked IRP investigator Michael Ombrello, M.D., to help her team follow a new lead in the mystery of why some patients with a rare inflammatory condition called Still’s disease were coming down with a life-threatening lung ailment.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE NATIONAL ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES ADVISORY COUNCIL MINUTES OF THE 106th MEETING November 18th, 2021 1:00 P.m. to 2:30 p.m. November 18th, 2021 Council Webcast I. CALL TO ORDER The 106th meeting of the National Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Advisory Council (NAMSAC) was held on November 18, 2021, via videoconference. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Robert H. Carter, Deputy Director, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS). Attendance Council members present: Dr. Joan M. Bathon, Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division

Using images of cells from mice, Dr. Glancy and his lab showed that myofibrils are actually not made of individual pieces lying side by side. Instead, they actually have little connections where the tubes branch off or split and connect to adjacent ones.

Welcome and Announcements The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) held its eighth biennial Coalition Outreach and Education Meeting: Creating Connections for Science on October 27, 2021, as a virtual event due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The NIAMS Coalition is an independent group of more than 90 professional and voluntary organizations interested in the mission and research areas of the NIAMS. Seventy-five representatives from 44 Coalition organizations logged on for the meeting. Coalition Overview NIAMS Coalition co-chairs Anna Hyde, M.A., vice president of advocacy for the Arthritis Foundation, and Eryn Marchiolo, M.P.H., vice president of

The NIAMS Update is produced and distributed by the NIAMS Science Communications and Outreach Branch. It is an online resource for the NIAMS Coalition, Council, and Colleagues.

This is the March-3-2022 issue of the NIAMS Community Outreach Bulletin, an online digest designed to inform community advocates and health professionals about resources for diverse audiences on conditions of the bones, joints, muscles and skin and ways to stay healthy.

Adeline Chin, a postbaccalaureate research fellow, is searching for proteins present at abnormally high or low levels in the blood of kids with a rare autoimmune illness.

Although the drugs have been around for more than 70 years, scientists have a poor understanding of how glucocorticoids regulate the immune system and the mechanisms by which they cause toxicity in different organs.

A type of skin cell called a dermal fibroblast can make an antimicrobial compound called cathelicidin in response to infection by acne-causing bacteria.