

About TRANS-FOODS
Allergic diseases, including atopic dermatitis (AD, also called ‘atopic eczema’) and food allergies (FA), affect over a quarter of all children across Europe.
The immune responses to oral food allergens are well-established, and controlled oral allergen exposure methods in early life have been developed that can prevent FA. However, it is not easy to comply with the repeated oral allergen exposure required to induce tolerance, and additional approaches are therefore needed.
There is mounting evidence that early life cutaneous exposure to foods causes sensitisation, especially in the presence of dry skin and AD. Despite this, very little is known about how the cutaneous sensitisation to FA occurs.
Project team

Professor Carsten Flohr
King’s College London

Professor Stuart Jones
King's College London

Professor Alexandra Santos
King's College London

Preeti Khurana
Study Manager, Kings College London

Levantine project team

Dr Elodie Segura
INSERM, Institut Curie Levantine

Professor Martina Meinke
Charité project team

Professor Natalia Novak
Universität Bonn

Faiza Benaouda
King's College London Pharmaceutical Medicine

Dr Karl Lawrence
King's College London Pharmaceutical Medicine

Saerrah Murryam
Clinical Research Fellow

Harriet Gilman
Research Assistant, King's College London