AIFA News October 2019 | Grants Awarded in 2019
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Grants Awarded in 2019We are delighted to announce that the Allergy and Immunology Foundation of Australasia (AIFA) has awarded $120,000 in grants to support allergy and immunology research in 2019. The grants were presented by AIFA Chair Dr Melanie Wong, at the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA) Annual Conference in Perth on 6 September 2019. 
Congratulations to all of the AIFA grant winning chief investigators listed above, who are supported by respected nationwide research teams. We are looking forward to reporting outcomes from this research in years to come. Thank you to our donors and supporters for making these grants possible, and our expert grant selection panel who volunteered their time. AIFA is now seeking donations and support for the 2020 grants. To donate go to www.allergyimmunology.org.au/donate By donating to AIFA, you can be reassured that 100% of donations to AIFA directly fund allergy/immunology research grants. |
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Allergy and Immunology Foundation of Australasia (AIFA) fundraising@allergy.org.au Suite 29, 117 Old Pittwater Road, Brookvale NSW 2100 PO Box 450 Balgowlah NSW 2093 Australia Registered as a charity ABN: 45 615 521 452 All donations are tax deductible |
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AIFA aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people with allergy and other immune system disorders by funding medical research |
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The AIFA Food Allergy Research Grant of $40,000 was awarded to Dr Sidonia Eckle who will study how mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells affect food allergies. Dr Eckle works at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne. 
The AIFA Food Allergy Research Grant of $10,000 (supported by DBV Technologies) was awarded to Dr Rachel Peters for her research: “Does the resolution of vitamin D deficiency in food allergic infants predict the resolution of food allergy?” Dr Peters works at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne. 
In celebration of ASCIA’s 30th Anniversary, AIFA awarded a $30,000 grant to Dr Jason Trubiano, to help establish the Australian Registry of Severe Cutaneous Adverse Reactions (AUS-SCAR) for severe drug allergy. Dr Trubiano is based at Austin Health in Melbourne. 
We are excited to announce that the first AIFA Primary Immunodeficiency Clinical Research Grant of $25,000 (supported by CSL Behring), was awarded to Dr Tri Giang Phan at the Garvan Institute, Sydney. Dr Phan will be using machine-learning to improve the diagnosis of Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases. 
Another new initiative is the AIFA Hereditary Angioedema Clinical Research Grant of $15,000 (supported by CSL Behring). Dr Samantha Chan is the first recipient of this grant, and her project is “Improving the diagnostic utility of next-generation sequencing in Hereditary Angioedema”. Dr Chan is part of a team based at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. 
