• Concurrent Pilot Studies in Giant cell arteritis (GCA) and Takayasu’s arteritis (TAK) to Examine the Safety, Efficacy, and Immunologic Effects of Abatacept (CTLA4-Ig) in Large Vessel Vasculitis
Center for Vasculitis Care and Research
(Pl: Dr. Carol Langford)

• Rituximab Therapy for the Induction of Remission and Tolerance in ANCA-Associated Vsculitis
National Institutes of Health / Immune Tolerance Network
(PIs: Dr. John Stone, JHU, Dr. Ulrich Specks, Mayo Clinic)
Center for Vasculitis Care and Research
(Pls: Dr. Carol Langford, Dr. Gary Hoffman)

• Longitudinal Studies in Takayasu’s, Giant Cell Arteritis, Churg Straus Syndrome, Polyarteritis Nodosa and Wegener’s Granulomatosis / Microscopic Polyangiitis
Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium
(PI: Dr. Peter Merkel)
Center for Vasculitis Care and Research
(Pl: Dr. Carol Langford)

• Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network A Multi-Center, Open-label, Pilot Study of Abatacept (CTLA4-Ig) in the Treatment of Mild Relapsing Wegener's Granulomatosis (WG)
Center for Vasculitis Care and Research
(Pl: Dr. Carol Langford)
Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium
(PI: Dr. Peter Merkel)

VCRC, Vasculitis Clinic Research Consortium

• Gene Expression Profile of Temporal Arteries of Giant Cell Arteritis
(Pl: Dr. Rula Hajj-Ali)

• Short-term Cyclophosphamide Therapy in a Cohort of Over 200 Patients.
Wegener's Granulomatosis Association
The Richard J. Fasenmyer Center for Clinical Immunology

Wegener’s Granulomatosis Etanercept Trial
Ancillary Studies
Longitudinal Study
Search for Infectious Causes of Wegener's
National Institutes of Health
(PI: Dr. Herbert Virgin, Washington University)
Center for Vasculitis Care and Research
(Pls: Dr. Gary Hoffman)

Genetic Polymorphisms in Wegener’s Granulomatosis
(Wegener’s Granulomatosis Genetic Repository – WGGER)
National Institutes of Health
(PIs: Dr. Jeffery Edberg, and Dr. Robert Kimberly, University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Center for Vasculitis Care and Research
(Pls: Dr. Gary Hoffman)

• The establishment of case registries for patients with 1. Primary angiitis of the central nervous system, 2. Wegener’s granulomatosis, and 3. Giant cell arteritis.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation Vasculitis Research Fund

• Summer Research Scholarships in Vasculitis.
1. The Esch Family Research Scholarship for Vasculitis
2. The American College of Rheumatology

Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Score for
Wegener’s Granulomatosis (BVAS/WG)

BVAS/WG Instructions Manual
BVAS/WG Glossary of Terms
BVAS for Wegener’s Granulomatosis Evaluation Form
20 Paper Cases Used in the Simulation Exercises

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