Alopecia Areata Awareness

Sonal Choudhary, MD

Choudhary reports serving on the speakers bureau for Regeneron and Sanofi.
June 21, 2023
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VIDEO: Pipeline for alopecia areata

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So in the same category as the JAK inhibitors, there are few other JAK inhibitors that are being looked into and there are studies that are ongoing and almost completed. So one of them is Tofacitinib that is possibly gonna come out for this condition. And the second would be platelet-rich plasma, which has also been used for many different conditions not just skin or hair related, but even in regenerative medicine that is a very prominent substance that we use. And it is using the patient's own blood venous sample centrifuged to derive the platelet-rich plasma and that is then injected in the affected areas in certain protocols. So that is another one that has good promise but it is not a FDA-approved treatment yet.