Here you can find an overview of the paediatric food allergy research currently ongoing or recently completed in Australia. Click on the study name for more information.
Researchers: Our aim is to provide you with a comprehensive overview of all the paediatric food allergy research that is taking place in Australia, but we need your help! If you have an ongoing or recently completed project, please contact us so that we can add it to this page.
Families: On this page, we provide an overview of research for information purposes only. If you want to volunteer for a study, please visit our Studies Accepting Participants page for a list of studies that are currently able to accept volunteers.
Study Name | Study Focus | Study Design | Study Aim | Principle Investigator | Administering Institute |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
4-FEED | Treatment | Intervention | To assess whether a 4-food elimination diet (4-FED), in combination with proton pump inhibitor (PPI) treatment, is superior to PPI monotherapy in children with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) | Katie Allen | The Royal Children’s Hospital |
PIFA | Prevention | Observational | To determine whether the whole cell pertussis vaccine was protective against the development of food allergy | Tom Snelling | Telethon Kids Institute |
PrEggNut | Prevention | Intervention | To test whether the amount of eggs and peanuts a mother eats during pregnancy and breastfeeding has an influence on her baby’s food allergy development | Debbie Palmer | Telethon Kids Institute |
SYMBA | Prevention | Intervention | To determine whether maternal prebiotic supplementation during pregnancy and breastfeeding can reduce the development of eczema in babies | Susan Prescott | Telethon Kids Institute |
VITALITY | Prevention | Intervention | To assess whether vitamin D supplementation during infancy can prevent food allergy in the first year of life | Kirsten Perrett | Murdoch Children’s Research Institute |
BEAT | Prevention | Intervention | To study whether the early introduction of egg prevented egg sensitisation at 1 year of age | Dianne Campbell | The Children's Hospital at Westmead |
BIS | Prevention | Observational | To investigate the mechanistic basis of the increase in immune-related diseases | Peter Vuillermin and Anne-Louise Ponsonby | Barwon Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Deakin University |
EarlyNuts | Prevention | Observational | A population-based cross-sectional study of age at the introduction of allergenic foods and food allergy in infants | Jennifer Koplin | Murdoch Children's Research Institute |
FPIES | Diagnosis | Observational | To elucidate the immune mechanisms that drive FPIES reactions via mRNA and gene sequencing analysis | Dianne Campbell | The Children's Hospital at Westmead |
HealthNuts | Prevention | Observational | To examine the natural history of allergic disorders including food allergy, asthma, eczema and allergic rhinitis and the interplay of risk factors for development of these conditions in childhood | Jennifer Koplin | Murdoch Children's Research Institute |
MACS | Epidemiology | Intervention, then observational | To determine effects of early life, childhood, adolescent and early adult exposures on eczema, food allergy, asthma, hay fever and lung function | Shyamali Dharmage | University of Melbourne |
MIS BAIR | Prevention | Intervention | To assess whether the BCG vaccine will prevent food allergy, eczema and lower respiratory tract infections in the first 5 years of life | Nigel Curtis | Murdoch Children's Research Institute |
OPIA | Treatment | Intervention | To determine whether graded peanut ingestion along with a dietary fibre supplement can train the body to become tolerant to peanut in children with peanut allergy | Peter Hsu | The Children's Hospital at Westmead |
OPTIMUM | Prevention | Intervention | To investigate if giving a dose of 'whole-cell' whooping cough vaccine between 6 and 12 weeks of age, instead of the 'acellular' whooping cough vaccine can help protect against allergy | Tom Snelling | Telethon Kids Institute |
PEBBLES | Prevention | Intervention | To find out if infant skin management with a particular cream, called EpiCeram™, might help reduce the chances that a child will develop allergies | Adrian Lowe | The University of Melbourne |
SchoolNuts | Population Prevalence | Observational | To determine the population prevalence of food allergy and risk factors for adverse reactions to foods in the early adolescent period (age 10-14 years) | Katie Allen | Murdoch Children's Research Institute |
PrEMO | Treatment | Intervention | To assess the rate of sustained unresponsiveness and desensitisation following 18 months of probiotic egg oral immunotherapy (OIT) or probiotic milk OIT | Adriana Lozinsky | Murdoch Children’s Research Institute |
PEAT | Treatment | Intervention | To test the hypothesis that probiotic and egg OIT is more effective than placebo at inducing sustained unresponsiveness (remission) in participants with egg allergy 8 weeks after end-of-treatment | Mimi Tang | Murdoch Children’s Research Institute |
PPOIT-003 | Treatment | Intervention | To determine if Probiotic and Peanut Oral Immunotherapy (PPOIT) is more effective than placebo and/or peanut OIT alone in inducing sustained unresponsiveness (SU) in children with peanut allergy | Paxton Loke | Murdoch Children’s Research Institute |
Quality of life in children with food allergy study | Quality of Life | Observational | To understand how food allergy affects quality of life, and how to better understand and measure the economic burden of changes in quality of life for food allergic children and their parents and carers | Dianne Campbell | The Children's Hospital at Westmead |
Incidents of anaphylaxis from non-packaged food products | Management | Observational | To get a better understanding about the incidents of anaphylaxis from non-packaged food products as a result of food purchased from food service establishments | Shyamali Dharmage | The University of Melbourne |
BabyEATS | Epidemiology | Observational | To evaluate the effectiveness of SMS messages as a tool for infant feeding advice related to allergen intake | Merryn Netting | South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute |
OzFITS | Epidemiology | Observational | To determine what children under two years of age are eating and drinking, and how today’s diets and feeding practices compare to Australian dietary guidelines. | Merryn Netting | South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute |
CAKE | Treatment | Intervention | To help to find out if eating baked egg helps the development of tolerance to raw egg in children with allergy to raw egg. | Maria Makrides | South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute |
TreEat | Prevention | Intervention | To find out if the introduction of multiple tree nuts in a hospital oral food challenge is better for prevention of tree nut allergy and is easier for families, than standard care. | Kirsten Perrett | Murdoch Children’s Research Institute |
Last modified: October 16th 2019 | Date created: May 28th 2019