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Contains: Courage® Research Retreat - Agenda 2021

This virtual event will feature two days of presentations and live question and answer sessions with key medical experts and researchers sharing the newest data and research in the food allergy space.

Agenda

*Agenda as of October 12, 2021. Please note, agenda is subject to change. 
**All times are Eastern Standard Time.

 

Day 1 - Monday, October 18, 2021

 

11:00 a.m. Welcome Remarks 

  • Mary Weiser, Chair, FARE Board of Directors

11:05 a.m. Keynote – Stanford University Research Followed by Live Discussion

  • Diagnostics for Food Allergy
    • Tina Sindher, MD, Stanford University
  • Therapeutic Innovations in Food Allergy
    • Sharon Chinthrajah, MD, Stanford University
  • D-Prevention for Food Allergy
    • Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD, Stanford University
  • Live Discussion
    • Sharon Chinthrajah, MD, Tina Sindher, MD

12:20 p.m. Break

1:00 p.m. Disease Development

  • T Cells and Response to Food Allergen Immunotherapy
    • Celia Berin, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Skin Barrier Dysfunction in Food Allergy
    • Donald Leung, PhD, MD, National Jewish Health  
  • A Non-Canonical Function of the Immune System: Intestinal Adaption of Nutrient Availability
    • Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD, Yale School of Medicine
  • Dietary and Microbiome Effects 
    • Uma Naidoo, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Live Panel Discussion

3:00 p.m. Break

4:00 p.m. Diagnosis

  • Addressing the Unmet Need in Food Allergy Diagnostics, Epitope-specific Antibody Profiling
    • Hugh Sampson, MD, AllerGenis
  • Role of Regulatory T Cells in Inducing Natural Tolerance to Food & Successful Oral Immunotherapy
    • Rima Rachid, MD, Harvard/Boston Children’s Hospital
  • FARE BBDC: Leveraging Biobanking for Food Allergy Research
    • Mike Pauciulo, MBA, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
  • Under the Banyan Tree: Tales of Biobank Facilitated Research
    • Amal Assa’ad, MD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
  • Live Panel Discussion

6:15 p.m. Special Panel Discussion

  • Implementation of Peanut Oral Immunotherapy
    • Moderated by: Edwin Kim, MD, MS, University of North Carolina
    • Katherine Anagnostou, MD, PhD, Baylor/Texas Children’s Hospital
    • Drew Bird, MD, UT Southwestern
    • Julie Wang, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
       

 

Day 2 - Tuesday, October 19, 2021

 

11:00 a.m. Treatment - Immunotherapy 

  • Safety of PTAH in Children and Teenagers with Peanut Allergy
    • Kari Brown, MS, Aimmune
  • Clinical Updates for Viaskin™ Peanut
    • Pharis Mohideen, MD, DBV Technologies 
  • Immunotherapy - Identifying Better Predictors of Success
    • Wayne Shreffler, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Anti-allergen Monoclonal Antibodies – Potential Paradigm Switch
    • Jennifer Maloney, MD, Regeneron
  • Live Panel Discussion

1:00-2:00 p.m. Break

2:00 p.m. Immunotherapy and FARE Clinical Network

  • Late-Stage Respiratory Pipeline
    • Thomas Corbridge, MD, GlaxoSmithKline
  • Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Westat, Data Coordinating Center
    • Jonathan Spergel, MD, PhD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
  • The FARE Patient Registry 
    • Dylan Klomparens, MS, FARE
  • Accelerating Research Via the FARE Clinical Network & Patient Registry
    • Jennifer Bufford, MS, FARE
  • Live Panel Discussion

4:00 p.m. Break

5:00 p.m. Keynote Address – NIAID Perspective

  • Introduction and State of the NIAID Food Allergy Portfolio
    • Alkis Togias, MD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
  • Food Allergy Prevention
    • Patricia Fulkerson, MD, PhD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
  • Immunotherapy in Food Allergy – the Quest for Tolerance
    • Amanda Rudman-Spergel, MD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
  • Live Panel Discussion
    • Alkis Togias, MD, Lisa Wheatley, MD, MPH, and colleagues

6:15 p.m. Special Panel Discussion

  • Implementation of Prevention
    • Moderated by: Christina Ciaccio, MD, MSc, UChicago Medicine
    • Helen Brough, PhD, King’s College London
    • Marion Groetch, MS, RD, CDN, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    • Kirsi Jarvinen-Seppo, MD, PhD, University of Rochester Medical Center
    • Bruce Lanser, MD, MPH, National Jewish Health

 

Day 3 - Wednesday, October 20, 2021

 

11:00 a.m. Keynote Address – King’s College London Research Activities

  • Translating LEAP into a Public Health Intervention
    • Graham Roberts, PhD, University of Southampton
  • Learning Early about Peanut Allergy Trial: What Linear Allergenic Epitope Profiling Can Tell us
    • Hugh Sampson, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • The Different Phenotypes of Peanut Allergy: The Resolution of Early Peanut Allergy
    • Ru-Xin Foong, MD, King’s College London
  • Live Panel Discussion
    • Ru-Xin Foong, MD, King’s College London
    • Gideon Lack, MA, MBBCH, FRCP CH, MD, King’s College London
    • Hugh Sampson, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

12:00 p.m. Break

1:00 p.m. Innovative Treatments

  • Reimagining the Treatment of Food Allergy to Transform Patient Lives
    • Ashley Dombkowski, PhD, AllAdapt
  • Reengineering the Early-life Gut Microbiome to Prevent Allergy & Asthma
    • Susan Lynch, PhD, UC San Francisco
  • VLP-Peanut: Route to Clinical Development
    • Pieter-Jan de Kam, PhD, Allergy Therapeutics
  • Using AI and Protein Engineering to Redesign Food Proteins for Food and Therapeutics
    • Anat Binur, PhD, Ukko
  • Live Panel Discussion

3:00 p.m. Break

4:00 p.m. Prevention

  • Start Eating Early Diet (SEED) Study
    • Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH, Northwestern University
  • Maternal Diet During Pregnancy in Allergy Prevention: Beyond food allergens
    • Carina Venter, PhD, RD, Children’s Hospital Colorado
  • Potential Mechanism of Action for Atopic Disease Prevention
    • Bethany Henrick, PhD, Evolve BioSystems
  • Live Panel Discussio

6:15 p.m. Special Panel Discussion

  • Do Something Now or Wait?
    • Moderated by: Scott Sicherer, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    • Corinne Keet, MD, University of North Carolina
    • Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, MD, PhD, NYU Langone
    • Wayne Shreffler, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital
    • Brian Vickery, MD, Emory University

7:15 p.m. Closing Remarks 

  • Mary Weiser, Chair, FARE Board of Directors

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