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Akihiro Nakamura
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Latest papers
Why Do Some Therapies Work While Others Fail? Mechanisms of Response and Emerging Treatments in axial Spondyloarthritis: 2026 SPARTAN Annual Meeting Proceedings.
Current rheumatology reports · 2026 · senior author
GRAPPA 2025 Annual Meeting: Advances in Psoriatic Disease Research From Pilot Grant Awardees.
The Journal of rheumatology · 2026
Real-world use of upadacitinib in refractory giant cell arteritis: a case report
Modern Rheumatology Case Reports · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $100,000
Investigation of Biomarkers and Novel Therapeutic Targets in Spondyloarthritis
ONTARIO · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $100,000
Investigation of Biomarkers and Novel Therapeutic Targets in Spondyloarthritis
CFI · 2025 · Principal investigator
15 publications.
Why Do Some Therapies Work While Others Fail? Mechanisms of Response and Emerging Treatments in axial Spondyloarthritis: 2026 SPARTAN Annual Meeting Proceedings.
Rutledge BJ, Wang L, Nakamura M, Nakamura A
GRAPPA 2025 Annual Meeting: Advances in Psoriatic Disease Research From Pilot Grant Awardees.
Spangenberg A, Bhutani T, Ferguson LD, Makos A, Nakamura A, Piccinelli A, Adami G, Amarasena R, Gisondi P, Kehoe O, Kuiper JH, Rossini M, Sattar N, Siebert S, de Vlam K, Chandran V, Liao W
Real-world use of upadacitinib in refractory giant cell arteritis: a case report
Lisa E. Wang, Christopher A. Davidson, Brian Wu, Akihiro Nakamura
Recent Advances in the Immunopathology of Axial Spondyloarthritis: with and without HLA-B27.
Wu B, Tang A, Nakamura A
Identification of Ephrin type-B receptor 4 as a critical mediator of tissue fibrosis.
Wu B, Lively SS, Vohra S, Fine N, Pastrello C, Maglaviceanu A, Espin-Garcia O, Pollock-Tahiri E, Nakamura S, Kaur P, Delos Santos K, Rockel JS, Potla P, Gupta H, Datta P, Tang L, Kwon J, Nakamura A, Buechler MB, Gandhi R, Wu J, Hinz B, Jurisica I, Kapoor M
HIF-1α and MIF enhance neutrophil-driven type 3 immunity and chondrogenesis in a murine spondyloarthritis model.
Nakamura A, Jo S, Nakamura S, Aparnathi MK, Boroojeni SF, Korshko M, Park YS, Gupta H, Vijayan S, Rockel JS, Kapoor M, Jurisica I, Kim TH, Haroon N
Sequence of Events in the Pathogenesis of Axial Spondyloarthritis: A Current Review-2023 SPARTAN Meeting Proceedings.
Srinath A, Nakamura A, Haroon N
Where are we in targeting hypoxia-induced pathways in inflammatory arthritis? Current understanding, insights, and future directions
Lisa E. Wang, Akihiro Nakamura
Macrophage migration inhibitory factor as a potential ‘missing important factor’ driving inflammatory arthritis in adrenocorticotropic hormone deficiency
Lisa E. Wang, Akihiro Nakamura
Year in Review: Novel Insights in the Pathogenesis of Spondyloarthritis - SPARTAN 2024 Annual Meeting Proceedings.
Remalante-Rayco P, Nakamura A
Investigation of Biomarkers and Novel Therapeutic Targets in Spondyloarthritis
Principal investigators: Nakamura, Akihiro
Keywords: Translational Medicine, Biomarker Discovery, Drug Development, Establishment and Expansion of Spondyloarthritis Program
Investigation of Biomarkers and Novel Therapeutic Targets in Spondyloarthritis
Principal investigators: Nakamura, Akihiro
Keywords: Translational Medicine, Biomarker Discovery, Drug Development, Establishment and Expansion of Spondyloarthritis Program Cell Incubation Under Hypoxia-Mechanical Stress, SpA Biobank Expansion
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Mohit Kapoor and Rajiv Gandhi: 46 shared papers
- Igor Jurisica and Mohit Kapoor: 38 shared papers
- Igor Jurisica and Vinod Chandran: 22 shared papers
- Mohit Kapoor and Osvaldo Espin Garcia: 18 shared papers
- Vinod Chandran and Nigil Haroon: 16 shared papers
- Vinod Chandran and Rajiv Gandhi: 16 shared papers
- Igor Jurisica and Rajiv Gandhi: 13 shared papers
- Igor Jurisica and Osvaldo Espin Garcia: 11 shared papers
- Rajiv Gandhi and Osvaldo Espin Garcia: 8 shared papers
- Jiangping Wu and Mohit Kapoor: 5 shared papers
- Igor Jurisica and Nigil Haroon: 4 shared papers
- Nigil Haroon and Mohit Kapoor: 4 shared papers
- Jiangping Wu and Rajiv Gandhi: 3 shared papers
- Lisa Wang and Akihiro Nakamura: 3 shared papers
- Jiangping Wu and Igor Jurisica: 2 shared papers
- Igor Jurisica and Akihiro Nakamura: 2 shared papers
- Vinod Chandran and Akihiro Nakamura: 2 shared papers
- Nigil Haroon and Akihiro Nakamura: 2 shared papers
- Mohit Kapoor and Akihiro Nakamura: 2 shared papers
- Jiangping Wu and Akihiro Nakamura: 1 shared paper
- Igor Jurisica and Lisa Wang: 1 shared paper
- Rajiv Gandhi and Akihiro Nakamura: 1 shared paper
- Osvaldo Espin Garcia and Akihiro Nakamura: 1 shared paper
- Akihiro Nakamura and Tanveer Towheed: 1 shared paper
- Department of Medicine
- Biostatistics Division
- Department of Surgery
- Department of Medical Biophysics
- Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
- Medicine
Co-authors at Queen's University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Lisa Wang
Biostatistics Division
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Igor Jurisica
Department of Medical Biophysics
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Vinod Chandran
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Nigil Haroon
Department of Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2024
Mohit Kapoor
Department of Surgery
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Tanveer Towheed
Department of Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Rajiv Gandhi
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Osvaldo Espin Garcia
Biostatistics Division
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Jiangping Wu
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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