Clinical Treatment Scenarios: Vitiligo Pathogenesis and the Role of JAK Inhibition – An In the Clinic Activity

“If you’ve seen one patient with vitiligo…you’ve seen one patient with vitiligo,” vitiligo expert Dr. David Rosmarin is fond of saying. This relatively common dermatologic disorder can present in a wide variety of ways and its impact on patients’ quality of life can be profound yet highly individual. As the pathogenesis of vitiligo began to reveal itself, it became clear that this autoimmune inflammatory disease is medical, not cosmetic, and can be managed by blocking aberrant signaling through the Janus kinase (JAK)/signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) pathway. However, until July 2022, there was no FDA-approved treatment that could accomplish this and restore the pigment lost to the destruction of melanocytes on the face, hands, or anywhere on the body. There is now a new treatment, ruxolitinib cream 1.5%, approved for use by adolescents and adults with nonsegmental vitiligo of any severity and in all parts of the body.

Join Dr. Rosmarin as he presents information about this and other emerging JAK inhibitors and offers ideas and treatment recommendations for case study patients that are likely to resemble, but not replicate, your highly individual vitiligo patients.

Upon completion of this educational activity, participants should be able to:

• Improve clinicians’ knowledge of the pathogenesis of vitiligo
• Describe the role of the JAK/STAT pathway in vitiligo
• Recall clinical trial data for new and emerging therapies for vitiligo

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David Rosmarin, MD
Consultant: AbbVie, Abcuro, AltruBio, Arena, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Celgene, Concert, CSL Behring, Dermavant, Dermira, Incyte, Janssen, Kyowa Kirin, Lilly, Novartis, Pfizer, Recludix, Regeneron, Revolo Biotherapeutics, Sanofi, Sun Pharma, UCB, Viela Bio
Research: AbbVie, Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Celgene, Dermira, Galderma, Incyte, Janssen, Lilly, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, Regeneron
Speaker: AbbVie, Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Celgene, Dermavant, Incyte, Janssen, Lilly, Novartis, Pfizer, Regeneron, Sanofi

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