Professor Mimi Tang is an immunologist allergist with an established international profile in the field of allergic disorders - she is considered a leading expert in food oral immunotherapy. She is Head of the Allergy Immunology Research Group and Director of the Allergy Translation Centre at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and Consultant Immunologist Allergist at Melbourne's Royal Children’s Hospital. Professor Tang has more than 25 years of experience in the investigation of basic immunological mechanisms underlying allergic disease pathogenesis and more than 15 years of clinical trials experience.
Professor Tang also collaborates on a number of longitudinal cohort studies including the Barwon Infant Study, HealthNuts and SchoolNuts and on the VITALITY clinical trial, and is a key leader within the NHMRC-funded CFAR CRE (Centre for Food and Allergy Research - a collaboration of experts in children’s food allergy and food-related immune disorders.
CFAR uses the latest approaches in epidemiology, immunology, paediatrics, nutrition, gastroenterology and biostatistics to investigate factors that cause, prevent and improve food allergies and aims to eradicate food allergy through improved prevention and cure, supported by evidence generated by a collaborative network of research; additional aim is to improve management of food allergy through public health policy and clinical pathways.
Professor Mimi Tang is an immunologist allergist with an established international profile in the field of allergic disorders - she is considered a leading expert in food oral immunotherapy. She is Head of the Allergy Immunology Research Group and...
Professor Mimi Tang is an immunologist allergist with an established international profile in the field of allergic disorders - she is considered a leading expert in food oral immunotherapy. She is Head of the Allergy Immunology Research Group and Director of the Allergy Translation Centre at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and Consultant Immunologist Allergist at Melbourne's Royal Children’s Hospital. Professor Tang has more than 25 years of experience in the investigation of basic immunological mechanisms underlying allergic disease pathogenesis and more than 15 years of clinical trials experience.
Professor Tang also collaborates on a number of longitudinal cohort studies including the Barwon Infant Study, HealthNuts and SchoolNuts and on the VITALITY clinical trial, and is a key leader within the NHMRC-funded CFAR CRE (Centre for Food and Allergy Research - a collaboration of experts in children’s food allergy and food-related immune disorders.
CFAR uses the latest approaches in epidemiology, immunology, paediatrics, nutrition, gastroenterology and biostatistics to investigate factors that cause, prevent and improve food allergies and aims to eradicate food allergy through improved prevention and cure, supported by evidence generated by a collaborative network of research; additional aim is to improve management of food allergy through public health policy and clinical pathways.
Top Publications
Wang, Y, Peters, RL, Perrett, KP, McWilliam, VL, Tang, MLK, Lowe, AJ, Ponsonby, A-L, Dharmage, SC, Allen, KJ, Koplin, JJ, et al.
Community-Based Adverse Food Reactions and Anaphylaxis in Children with IgE-Mediated Food Allergy at Age 6 Years: A Population-Based Study..
J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract
8(10)
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3515 -3524
2020
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Boyle, R, Brown, N, Chiang, WC, Chien, CM, Gold, M, Hourihane, J, Peake, J, Quinn, P, Rao, R, Smith, P, et al.
Retraction Note to: Partially hydrolysed, prebiotic supplemented whey formula for the prevention of allergic manifestations in high risk infants: a multicentre double-blind randomised controlled trial..
Clin Transl Allergy
10:
48
2020
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Heffernan, AL, Gomez-Ramos, MJ, Symeonides, C, Hare, DJ, Vijayasarathy, S, Thompson, K, Mueller, JF, Ponsonby, AL, Sly, PD, BIS Investigator Group.
Harmonizing analytical chemistry and clinical epidemiology for human biomonitoring studies. A case-study of plastic product chemicals in urine..
Chemosphere
238:
124631
2020
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Mansell, T, Ponsonby, A-L, Collier, F, Burgner, D, Vuillermin, P, Lange, K, Ryan, J, Saffery, R, Barwon Infant Study Investigator Team.
Genetic variation, intrauterine growth, and adverse pregnancy conditions predict leptin gene DNA methylation in blood at birth and 12 months of age..
Int J Obes (Lond)
44(1)
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45 -56
2020
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Gray, LEK, Ponsonby, A-L, Lin, TX, O'Hely, M, Collier, F, Ranganathan, S, Sly, PD, Pezic, A, Tang, MLK, Burgner, D, et al.
High incidence of respiratory disease in Australian infants despite low rate of maternal cigarette smoking..
J Paediatr Child Health
55(12)
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1437 -1444
2019
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