25-26 January 2024 -The NECESSITY project held its annual General Assembly with representatives from all of our 25 partners, including both from industry and academia. We were also honored to have the indispensable Patient Advisory Group (PAG) representatives among us. The two-day meeting was hosted by our industry partner, GSK in Stevenage (London, UK). TheRead more
19th-20th January 2023 – After two year of virtual meetings, finally we attended again to our General Assembly in presence!!! The NECESSITY Fourth General Assembly took place at the Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier in Paris Read more
The development of the new composite responder index STAR is completed and the results have been published in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. Development and preliminary validation of the Sjögren’s Tool for Assessing Response (STAR): a consensual composite score for assessing treatment effect in primary Sjögren’s syndrome https://ard.bmj.com/content/early/2022/04/06/annrheumdis-2021-222054Read more
On July the 23rd, the International Sjögren’s Network will celebrate World Sjögren’s Day to commemorate the birthday of Dr. Henrik Sjögren. He was the Swedish ophthalmologist who identified the condition back in 1933. This is a great opportunity to increase awareness of Sjögren’s syndrome. https://www.sjogrens.org/get-involved/spread-awareness/world-sjogrens-dayRead more
22sd-23rd January 2020 – The NECESSITY First General Assembly took place at the Novartis Campus Auditorium in BaselRead more
Work on the project is in full swing: Data shared among NECESSITY Partners (R Jonsson, W-F Ng, J-E Gottenberg and X Mariette) and others show the power of systems biology for stratifying patients suffering from primary Sjögren’s syndrome. This work has recently been submitted for publication. In a co-culture model of B lymphocytes and epithelialRead more
16th-17th January 2019 The NECESSITY kick off meeting took place at the Kremlin Bicêtre Hospital in Paris. NECESSITY Project Press release – Fact sheetRead more
NECESSITY Project officially started on 1st January 2019.Read more
