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2023 Grants announced
The 2023 AIFA grants recipients were announced at the ASCIA Conference in September. Thank you to our donors and sponsors for making it possible for AIFA to fund a total of $90,000 in research grants for 2023.
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AIFA announces grant recipients for 2023
The Chair of the Allergy and Immunology Foundation of Australasia, Dr Melanie Wong, announced the recipients of the AIFA grants for 2023 at the ASCIA Conference in September. AIFA Professor Ann Kupa Food Allergy Research Grant to Chief Investigator A/Prof Rachel Peters at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) in Melbourne for the project “Preventing childhood food allergy: wave 2 of the... -
AIFA grant recipients will be announced 6 September 2023
11 August 2023: The AIFA Chair, Dr Melanie Wong, will announce AIFA grant recipients at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA) at the International Conference Centre, Sydney, on Wednesday 6 September 2023. Chief Investigators of projects funded by AIFA in 2021 will present their research results at the AIFA Research Symposium on 6 September... -
AIFA grant round 2023
29 March 2023: Thank you to our generous supporters, who have enabled the Allergy and Immunology Foundation of Australasia (AIFA) to offer eight research grants to ASCIA members in 2023. The grant round is now open and expressions of interest are due by 5 May. Grants to be awarded in September at the ASCIA conference: $20,000 Professor Ann Kupa AIFA Food Allergy Research Grant $15,000 DBV...
Food allergy and Sarah
Doctors diagnosed Sarah’s peanut allergy when she was still an infant and her mum, Antoinette, says it was a frightening and life-altering discovery. “People need to realise that consuming food that you are allergic to could potentially lead to anaphylaxis. It is absolutely terrifying.”
Sarah has been part of a research trial that may help her tolerate peanuts.