Major Developments in the Division of Clinical Immunology & Allergy: Annual Report 2018-2020
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The AllerGen NCE, which came to a close in 2019, has nurtured and supported research developments for 15 successful years.
Dr. Susan Waserman, Director, the Division of Clinical Immunology & Allergy highlights key achievements in the latest 2018-2020 Annual report of the Department of Medicine.
- The division is very active in teaching medical and pediatric residents, and clinical clerks from McMaster and elsewhere. Graduating trainees have proceeded to academic and clinical careers in Clinical Immunology and Allergy in Canada and internationally.
- An area in which the McMaster Immunology Research Centre (MIRC), recently integrated with our Division is undergraduate teaching. This area is very active and very well supported by our divisional faculty.
- The Division continues to be extremely active in a variety of areas. Principal research themes are therapeutics related to the respiratory tract (Keith), food allergy and anaphylaxis (Waserman, Jordana Chu), autoimmune disease (Denburg, Haaland, Larché), hereditary angioedema (Waserman, Keith), peptide immunotherapy in allergic and autoimmune disease (Denburg, Larché, Haaland), systematic reviews (Chu), hemopoietic stem cells in allergy (Denburg), and urticaria/eczema (Lima, Waserman).
- Peer-reviewed, private sector and Foundation funding for studies of basic mechanisms in allergy and novel therapeutics/biologics in pre-clinical and clinical models continue to grow and yield exciting scientific discovery.
- The AllerGen NCE, which came to a close in 2019, has nurtured and supported these research developments for 15 successful years under the leadership of Dr. Judah Denburg, Scientific Director and CEO.
- An exciting development in 2021 will be the deployment of the Schroeder Allergy and Immunology Research Institute through a generous gift from the Walter and Maria Schroeder Foundation.
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