Developing safe, convenient, disease-modifying treatments for food allergies.
Scientific Advisory Board
Gideon Lack
MA, MBBCH, FRCP CH, M.D.
Gideon Lack is Professor of Paediatric Allergy at King’s College London, U.K. He is also Head of the Clinical Academic Paediatric Allergy Service, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
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Professor Lack's research interests and clinical expertise have focused on severe childhood asthma, peanut allergy, and new strategies to prevent and treat allergies and related illnesses. He was the Principle Investigator on the LEAP (Learning Early About Peanut allergy) and EAT (Enquiring About Tolerance) studies.
Kari C. Nadeau
M.D., PhD
Kari Nadeau was Professor of Pediatric Food Allergy at the Stanford School of Medicine, a Section Chief of Allergy and Asthma at the Stanford School of Medicine, and is an endowed Professor under the Naddisy Family Foundation. In 2023, she was appointed as the new Chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Professor Nadeau is also Director of the Sean N. Parker Centre for Allergy and Asthma Research. Her Center’s mission is to transform the lives of patients and families through innovative science and compassionate care.
Mark Larché
PhD
Mark Larché is Professor of Medicine at McMaster University, Canada and is transitioning to the University of Calgary where he will be acquiring new roles. He is also Chair in Lung Immunology at St. Joseph’s Healthcare, and the Canada Research Chair in Allergy & Immune Tolerance.
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Professor Larché is an accomplished researcher in T cell immunology and member of numerous societies including the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.
Robert A. Wood
M.D.
Robert A. Wood is a Professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. An internationally recognized expert in food allergy and childhood asthma, he is also chief of the Eudowood Division of Allergy and Immunology in the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.
Professor Wood is associate editor of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and has served on the board of directors of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology and the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology.