Why can’t sarcoidosis drug research be focused on animals?
Presently, there is no animal model for sarcoidosis. That means we have been unable to cause sarcoidosis to occur in animals, so we cannot study the disease in them. Also, even if sarcoidosis could be studied in animals, the results of animal drug studies have to be confirmed in humans because a) some drugs work for diseases in animals but not in humans; and b) some drugs have serious side effects in humans that are not present in animals.