Probiotic Egg Allergen Immunotherapy for Treatment of Egg Allergy (Old ID 26604)
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
Eight percent of children have a food allergy and prevalence is increasing. There is no cure so management requires food avoidance which is difficult to achieve. Accidental ingestion of allergen is common, and can result in life-threatening anaphylaxis of death. A curative treatment is vital to improve management. We recently developed a novel treatment of peanut allergy that resulted in the best response rates yet reported for any therapy in development - a combination treatment comprising Probiotics and Peanut Oral Immunotherapy (PPOIT). It is now essential to conduct a larger trial to enhance the study design and confirm these findings in order to progres this treatment to practice, which is the focus of this research.
Date
01 Jan 2018 - 12 Dec 2021
Project Type
GRANT
Keywords
Food Allergy;IgE Antibody;Protein analysis;Diagnostic;Allergenic Proteins
Funding Body
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Amount
1865368.65
Project Team
N/A