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OUR ADVISORY BOARD
We have entered a new Era in Food Allergy Research and Treatment.
Scientists and healthcare professionals are making significant strides in understanding the immune system and developing innovative therapies.
Every new discovery brings us closer to a world where food allergies are no longer a life-threatening condition but a manageable aspect of life.
Ronald Van Ree PhD Scientific Lead
PROFESSOR OF THE AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER>
Our Advisory Board Ronald Van Ree PhD Scientific Lead
BACKGROUND- Full Professor of Molecular and Translational Allergology
- Head of the Allergy Research Group at the Departments of Experimental Immunology and of Otorhinolaryngology.
Adnan Custovic PhD Clinical Lead
PROFESSOR, IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON>
Adnan Custovic PhD Clinical Lead
BACKGROUND- Paediatric Allergy Group Lead within the Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health
- Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at St. Mary’s Hospital and Royal Brompton Hospital
- Director of the Imperial College London/Imperial College Healthcare Trust Allergy Centre, a World Allergy Organization (WAO) Centre of Excellence
Montserrat Fernẚndez-Rivas MD, PhD, Allergist
HEAD ALLERGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL CLINICO SAN CARLOS, MADRID>
Montserrat Fernẚndez-Rivas MD, PhD, Allergist
BACKGROUND- Associate Professor Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Head of the Research group in Allergy of the IdISSC
- Previous Chair of the EAACI Task Force on Allergen Immunotherapy for IgE mediated Food Allergy
Barbara K. Ballmer-Weber MD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MEDICAL FACULTY, UNIVERSITY ZüRICH>
Barbara K. Ballmer-Weber MD
BACKGROUND- Associate Professor of Allergy and Dermatology at the Medical Faculty, University Zurich
- Chief physician of Allergology and Clinical Immunology at the Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Brian Vickery MD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY, EMORY UNIVERSITY>
Brian Vickery MD
BACKGROUND- Founding Director of the Food Allergy Center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
- Vice-Chair of the Adverse Reactions to Foods Committee in the AAAAI
- Chief Medical Advisor for Patient Experience to FARE
- Member of FARE’s Outcomes Research Advisory Board
Dr. Brian Vickery
Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University and the founding Director of the Food Allergy Center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
Over the last 11 years he has led productive and consistently funded patient-oriented research teams focused on translational therapeutic development for IgE-mediated food allergies, work spanning preclinical murine models to Phase 3 trials.
With the first new therapies poised for FDA approval and translation into clinical care, he is now particularly interested in the intersection of translational and outcomes research in generating rational, evidence-driven treatment strategies that maximize benefit/risk and improve patient-centered care.
Ronald van Ree
Professor of Molecular and Translational Allergology at the Department of Experimental Immunology and the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, in The Netherlands.
His research group focuses on elucidating the mechanisms of allergic sensitization and the role of allergen structure and exogenous environmental, microbial and dietary factors in this process.
Epidemiology of food allergy, in and outside Europe, has been at the center of his attention for the last two decades.
Other areas of interest are component-resolved diagnosis, allergen standardization of diagnostic and therapeutic allergen products, and the development of innovative AIT approaches for the treatment of respiratory and food allergies, using recombinant and nano-technologies and novel adjuvants.
Adnan Custovic
Paediatric Allergy Group Lead within the Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at St. Mary’s Hospital and Royal Brompton Hospital.
His research has focused upon the origins and natural history of asthma and allergy across the life-course, with an emphasis on prevention and translation for patient benefit. His research findings are of great practical significance, and have informed and changed national and international guidelines on asthma prevention and management. His studies in food allergy substantially impacted clinical practice. His discovery that IgE-response to peanut allergen Ara h 2 is much more predictive of true peanut allergy than standard marked the start of the component-resolved diagnostics as the new gold standard in clinical practice.