Dr. Bruce Mazer, an AllerGen investigator and division head of Allergy and Immunology at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, is leading a new study that will determine how the protein Semaphorin 4C (Sema4C) is involved in the development of severe asthma. …
AllerGen researcher funded to lead study of protein involved in severe asthma Read more »
Dr. Anne K. Ellis has been appointed the James H. Day Chair in Allergic Diseases and Allergy Research by Queen’s University, Faculty of Health Sciences. This appointment is for a five-year period from May 1, 2015 to April 30, 2020. …
AllerGen investigator named James H. Day Chair at Queen’s University Read more »
Dr. Anita Kozyrskyj, an AllerGen investigator and a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta—together with a team of CHILD Study researchers from across Canada—has received a five-year operating grant, valued at over $500,000, from the …
CHILD Study researchers receive new 5-year CIHR grant Read more »
In partnership with AllerGen, for the past four years Dr. Greg Evans and his research team at the University of Toronto have been developing “AirSENCE,” a novel technology for monitoring air quality. Their work is now going public in a high-profile …
AllerGen team measures air quality for PanAm Games Read more »
Dr. Kelly McNagny has been named a Co-Scientific Director of the Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD)—a national not-for-profit that speeds the development and commercialization of new drugs and health technologies emerging from Canada’s universities and research hospitals. Dr. …
AllerGen researcher Dr. Kelly McNagny named Co-Scientific Director of CDRD Read more »
Dr. Catherine Laprise, a co-investigator with the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, spoke, in a French-language interview, with RadioCanada on May 23, 2015, to discuss how 3,500 Canadian families are helping scientists uncover the origins of asthma and …
Surfactant protein D (SP-D) is an important molecule in the lungs that protects lung cells from inhaled pollutants, microbes and allergens. In a new study published in Respiratory Research, AllerGen researchers report that SP-D in asthmatics differs from that found …
Study finds protein difference in lungs of asthmatics Read more »
AllerGen investigator Dr. Malcolm Sears has been honoured with an Award for Leadership in Health Research, presented by the Asthma Society of Canada (ASC). Dr. Sears is the Co-Director of AllerGen’s ground-breaking Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, a …
CHILD Study Director Dr. Malcolm Sears honoured by the Asthma Society of Canada Read more »
A new study emerging from AllerGen’s Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study has revealed an association between sensitivity to allergens and exposure to traffic-related air pollution during infancy. The study, “Perinatal Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Atopy at …
CHILD Study shows infant exposure to air pollution increases risk for allergies Read more »
Dr. Paul O’Byrne, principal investigator for AllerGen’s Clinical Investigator Collaborative Legacy Project, Professor and Chair of Medicine at McMaster University, and Director of the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health at St. Joseph’s Healthcare, is one of five faculty members just …
Head of AllerGen’s CIC honoured by McMaster University Read more »
AllerGen Scientific Director Dr. Judah Denburg will speak on the topic of “In situ hemopoiesis in allergic inflammation and disease: from serendipity to prediction” as part of the Biomedical Research Centre Seminar Series of The University of British Columbia (UBC). …
Scientific Director speaks at UBC Biomedical Research Centre Read more »
AllerGen investigators Dr. Catherine Laprise and Dr. Christopher Carlsten have each been awarded a Canada Research Chair for their outstanding work in the field of asthma and allergies. Dr. Laprise, a professor in the Fundamentals Sciences Department at the Université …
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