Tag: Consortium of Food Allergy Research (CoFAR)

Federal Budget Allocations for Food Allergy

This Year’s Federal Budget Increases Spending For Food Allergy Research and...

Budget includes millions of dollars to increase food allergy research funding and protect children with food allergies.
Eggs

Egg Oral Immunotherapy Could be Better Option than Baked Egg Therapy...

5 year multi-site study shows egg OIT was significantly more likely to achieve sustained unresponsiveness compared to children opting for baked egg therapy.
Child Undergoing Blood Draw

AllerGenis Begins Testing Patient Samples for Peanut Allergy Using Proprietary Epitope...

VeriMAP Peanut Diagnostic has a 93% concordance with food challenge results providing a diagnosis with greater certainty.
Omalizumab + OIT

Clinical Trial to Evaluate Experimental Treatment in People Allergic to Multiple...

NIH and partners to assess whether Omalizumab can reduce allergic reactions.
AR101

Aimmune to Submit FDA Application for Peanut OIT Candidate by End...

If approved, AR101 could be offered as the first FDA approved OIT therapy for peanut allergy.

NIH Designates $42 Million to Food Allergy Research Group over 7...

CoFAR has done important clinical research since 2005 and will continue with NIH funding.