NACE allergy experts attend 2025 AAAAI/WAO Joint Congress

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Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 9:00 AM

Image: Dr Maheshwar Bhasin, Sophie Rosser, Chia-Lun (Natalie) Chang, Professor Michaela Lucas, Professor Dianne Campbell, Dr Preeti Joshi, Dr Lara Ford, Professor Connie Katelaris, Professor Gideon Lack and Dr Thimo Ruethers.

Esteemed allergy researchers from the National Allergy Centre of Excellence (NACE) and Centre for Food Allergy Research (CFAR) are among the presenters at this week's AAAAI/WAO Joint Congress in San Diego, CA, USA.

The focus of this year’s Congress is climate change and allergic diseases: global impact on health.

Professor Kirsten Perrett, Director of the NACE and CFAR, said the Congress was an opportunity for Australian allergy researchers to share their work with international colleagues and hear about the latest global trends in allergy prevention and treatment strategies.

“In Australia, 20 per cent of the population live with allergic disease, including 10 per cent of infants diagnosed with clinically confirmed food allergy,” said Prof Perrett, who will be attending.

“Australia is leading the way in many aspects of allergy research, including the recent discovery of a link between air pollution and childhood peanut allergy. We look forward to sharing our knowledge and discoveries, particularly in the food, drug and respiratory allergy streams, at the world’s largest allergy conference.”

NACE LEADERSHIP GROUP MEMBER

• Professor Jason Trubiano, NACE Drug Allergy Stream Advisory Group Co-chair, Austin Health, Development and Validation of a Cephalosporin Allergy Clinical Decision Rule – CEPH-FAST. (Presentation)

NACE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

• Professor Elizabeth Phillips, NACE ISAB member, Vanderbilt University, Challenging Cases in Drug and Vaccine Allergy: What Can I Do For This Patient (Workshop)
• Professor Stephen Durham, NACE ISAB member, Imperial College London, Preventive Aspects of Immunotherapy: Stopping the Progression of Allergic Airway Disease (Seminar)

NACE & CFAR FOOD ALLERGY EXPERTS

Presenting at the AAAAI/WAO Joint Congress, supported by CFAR3 Travel Grants, are the following NACE/CFAR members:

Natalie Chang, CFAR3 PhD Scholar, The University of Melbourne. Hot Topics in Allergic Skin Disease (oral abstract session). Early Life Protein-Bound Skin Ceramides May Predict the Development of Atopic Dermatitis (Presentation)

Dr Thimo Ruethers, CFAR2 PhD Scholar, James Cook University, Clinical Management of Food Allergy (Poster). Diminishing Allergy Risks Through Cell-Cultivation of Fish (Presentation)

Sophie Rosser, NACE PhD Scholar (food stream), Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect of oral immunotherapy on food allergy-related quality of life (Late-breaking poster)

Maheshwar Bhasin, PhD Candidate, The University of Western Australia, Updates on the Clinical Presentation and Management of Food Allergy (Oral abstract session). Non-Exclusive Colostrum Feeding Is Associated With An Increased Risk Of Food Allergy In One-Year-Old-Children (Presentation)

CFAR, which helps make up the NACE Food Allergy Stream, is a World Allergy Organization Centre of Excellence.

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