Disease Education Information: Inflammation
Inflammation is a critical response to potential danger signals and damage to organs in our body. But with autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, and many others, our own immune system turns against our organs.
These painful and debilitating conditions take an immense toll on people’s quality of life and many of these diseases are poorly managed by existing treatments that provide only symptomatic relief.
For decades, doctors relied on steroids to suppress immune response. Though an important option, steroids come with many potentially harmful side effects.
Fortunately, science has continued to advance, and today we have the opportunity to transform the management of inflammatory diseases with new classes of therapies that target other key proteins and pathways in the body.
Inflammation & Immunology Resources
The medicines available today have taken an average of 12 years to develop. With dedication, creativity, and science, we can significantly cut that time.
Areas of Focus
Revolutionary medicines have the power to enrich and extend life across many disease areas. Explore our latest innovations.
Internal Medicine
We’re developing therapies to treat, slow, or prevent disease progression and improve the quality of life for patients with obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular and kidney diseases.
Inflammation & Immunology
We look for treatments that provide more than just symptom relief, in order to address the root cause of chronic inflammatory diseases at a molecular level
Vaccines
Vaccines are the single most important innovation in the science of health to significantly reduce the threat of diseases that were once widespread and oftentimes fatal.
Oncology
Cancer treatment needs to be transformed across the entire landscape to significantly improve the lives of cancer patients worldwide.
How Drugs Are Made
The medicines available today have taken an average of 12 years to develop. With dedication, creativity, and science, we can significantly cut that time.
