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A Closer Look: Clinical Trials and the PRESIDIO Study

Saturday, February 27, 2021, at 2:00 PM Eastern Time

Join MSU together with Kezar Life Sciences for A Closer Look: Clinical Trials and the PRESIDIO Study. 

Clinical trials are a key research tool for advancing medical knowledge and patient care. Join Kezar Life Sciences as Dr. Richard Leff provides an overview of the clinical trial process, their importance in research and bringing new therapies to the market. Dr. Leff will also share information around the PRESIDIO Study, a phase 2 clinical study currently evaluating the use of KZR-616, a selective immunoproteasome inhibitor for the treatment of polymyositis and dermatomyositis.

Learn more about the PRESIDIO Study here.

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Presenting during the webinar:

Richard Leff, M.D.

For the past 10 years I have been an independent consultant in rheumatology and biopharmaceutical clinical development. In my chosen profession of developing new drugs, prior to that I had 15 years of leading and managing teams in the international clinical development of novel pharmaceutical compounds for the treatment of rheumatologic (mainly arthritis) and other diseases, in the US and around the world. I have worked with other, external groups, such as the NIH Osteoarthritis Initiative Consortium, OMERACT, IMMPACT, and the OARSI FDA Osteoarthritis Guidelines Initiative. I have also served as the pharmaceutical industry representative on FDA advisory committees on Arthritis and on Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug Products.

After my rheumatology fellowship, I was a faculty member for 3 years at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina in the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, and was the Chief, Section of Rheumatology, VAMC-Charleston, SC (I was the only Rheumatologist at the VA). During my fellowship at National Institutes of Health, NIAMS, Arthritis and Rheumatism Branch, mainly in the laboratory of Paul Plotz working on myositis and was involved with the care of patients with myositis and lupus nephritis.