Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Immunotherapy technique holds promise for curing food allergies
AllerGen Research Leader Dr. John Gordon and his team at the University of Saskatchewan have developed a new immunotherapy technique that reverses food allergies in mice.
AllerGen and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) co-funded the research, which may represent an important approach to treating food allergies in humans.
The findings, published October 26, 2016, in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, will lead next to testing the treatment on humanized mice. Pending Health Canada approval, the first human trial could begin in about a year.
Read the press release.