AllerGen trainees Maxwell Tran and Dr. Leila Mostaço-Guidolin were recognized for the outstanding quality of their abstracts at the 2016 conference of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), held May 13–18, 2016, in San Francisco. Tran, a BHSc student at McMaster …

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The annual incidence of recurrent anaphylaxis in children is 29%, according to new findings from AllerGen’s Cross-Canada Anaphylaxis REgistry (C-CARE) project. Dr. Andrew O’Keefe, an allergist from St. John’s, Newfoundland, presented the results at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma …

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The Stanford Alliance for Food Allergy Research (SAFAR)/AllerGen Research Fellowship will co-fund a $50,000 award for a Canadian investigator (PhD or MD) with an interest in the prevention and treatment of severe food allergies to pursue academic research training with …

Call for Applications for AllerGen-Stanford Fellowship in food allergy extended Read more »

In a new study published August 13, 2014, by The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, AllerGen trainee Ryan Persaud and a team of AllerGen researchers found that Canadian newborns are routinely exposed to antibiotics immediately before or after birth. …

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Read Dr. Meghan Azad’s informal report on her participation in the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, available here. Dr. Azad thanks the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for nominating her for inclusion in the event and …

AllerGen trainee ​reports back from meeting with Nobel Laureates Read more »

AllerGen will partner in the Emerging Research Leaders Initiative (ERLI)—an establishment grant program for researchers at the transition stage from post-doctoral fellow to early career professional in the areas of cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and/or respiratory health research. This multi-partnered initiative is …

AllerGen and Canadian Respiratory Research Network (CRRN) partner to invest in grants for early career investigators Read more »