# 2020 Food Allergy Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar

> **NIH NIH R13** · GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES · 2020 · $10,000

## Abstract

Food allergy research is rapidly evolving and increasingly multidisciplinary, as global awareness
of this complex, multifactorial, life-threatening disease accelerates. The first ever phase III trials
of therapeutics have recently been completed, and like other allergic disease, biologics have
the potential to reshape treatment approaches in the clinic over the coming next few years.
However, very fundamental questions about the mechanisms of immunity to dietary antigens in
health and disease remain unanswered and in some cases are just beginning to be
systematically addressed. Better understanding mechanisms such as how innate and adaptive
immune cells interact with neurosensory pathways to sense diet and regulate the digestive and
immune systems will very likely lead to new more rational and effective prevention strategies
and treatments. Better understanding the role of Th2 immunity in neurodevelopment and
oncology may provide important insights for safe application of rapidly emerging and potentially
transformational biologics to the problems of food allergy as well as atopic dermatitis, asthma
and other allergic diseases. The overall aim for the 2020 Food Allergy Gordon Conference is
to enhance the quality and quantity of food allergy research. We are committed to attracting top
researchers in the field, and fully integrating trainees, early career investigators, and especially
women and minority researchers, to better reflect and ultimately increase the true diversity of
this emerging field of high and increasing impact.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9914389
- **Project number:** 1R13AI150089-01
- **Recipient organization:** GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** WAYNE G SHREFFLER
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $10,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2019-12-12 → 2020-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9914389

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9914389, 2020 Food Allergy Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar (1R13AI150089-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-14 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9914389. Licensed CC0.

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