Phase 3 Extension Study to Evaluate Long-term Safety of Ianalumab in Participants With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SIRIUS-SLE Extension).

Key Inclusion Criteria:

• Signed informed consent prior to participation in the extension study. Parent orlegal guardian's signed informed consent and child's assent, if appropriate, arerequired before any assessment is performed for participants <18 years of age. Ofnote, if the participant reaches age of consent (age as per local law) during thestudy, they will also need to sign the corresponding study Informed Consent Form (ICF) at the next study visit.

• Participants must have participated in either one of the two SIRIUS-SLE corestudies, CVAY736F12301 or CVAY736F12302, and have completed the treatment periodthrough Week 60 without treatment discontinuation.

• In the judgement of the investigator, participants must be expected to clinicallybenefit from continued study treatment.

Key Exclusion Criteria:

• Use of prohibited therapies.

• Active viral, bacterial or other infections requiring intravenous or intramusculartreatment for clinically significant infection which in the opinion of theinvestigator will place the participant at risk for participation.

• Plans for administration of live vaccines during the study period.

• Pregnant or nursing (lactating) women.

• Women of child-bearing potential, defined as all women physiologically capable ofbecoming pregnant, refusing or unable to use highly effective methods ofcontraception while on study treatment and for 6 months after stopping of study drug (or longer if required by concomitant medications).

• United States (and other countries, if locally required): sexually active males,unless they agree to use barrier protection during intercourse with women ofchild-bearing potential while taking study treatment.

Other protocol-defined inclusion/exclusion criteria may apply.