Food Allergy Resources: Research

Thirty years ago, food allergy was extremely rare. Today, 4.3 million U.S. children suffer from this potentially life-threatening condition. The number of children suffering with peanut allergy alone has doubled in five years – and the numbers continue to grow. It is this increase that prompted the development of the Children’s Memorial Food Allergy Study.

Find clinical trials involving egg allergy that are currently registered with the National Institutes of Health.

These studies are registered with the National Institutes of Health and involve investigation of food allergy, food hypersensitivity, eosinophilic disorders and other related atopic disease.

Find studies investigating milk allergy that are currently registered with the National Institutes of Health.

Find studies involving peanut allergy that are currently registered with the National Institutes of Health.

Pediatrics researchers have identified the first major gene location responsible for a severe, often painful type of food allergy called eosinophilic esophagitis.

The National Institutes of Health announced that the Consortium of Food Allergy Research (CoFAR), will be funded for five more years. CoFAR will continue to foster new approaches to prevent and treat food allergies and also expand in scope to include research on the genetic causes underlying food allergy and studies of food allergy-associated eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases (EGIDs).

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, is seeking public comment on draft Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy. The public comment period is open for 60 days beginning March 8 and ending May 3.

Children's Hospital Boston is conducting a research study to investigate the usefulness of a group program for children with food allergy ages 9 to 12 years and their parents.