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
Robinson, M, Koplin, JJ, Field, MJ, Sasaki, M, Peters, RL, McWilliam, V, Sawyer, SM, Patton, GC, Vuillermin, PJ, Douglass, J, et al.
Patterns of Carriage of Prescribed Adrenaline Autoinjectors in 10- to 14-Year-Old Food-Allergic Students: A Population-Based Study..
J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract
7(2)
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437 -443
2019
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Dang, TD, Peters, RL, Koplin, JJ, Dharmage, SC, Gurrin, LC, Ponsonby, A-L, Martino, DJ, Neeland, M, Tang, MLK, Allen, KJ, et al.
Egg allergen specific IgE diversity predicts resolution of egg allergy in the population cohort HealthNuts..
Allergy
74(2)
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318 -326
2019
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Koplin, JJ, Allen, KJ, Tang, MLK.
Important risk factors for the development of food allergy and potential options for prevention..
Expert Rev Clin Immunol
15(2)
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147 -152
2019
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McWilliam, V, Peters, R, Tang, MLK, Dharmage, S, Ponsonby, A-L, Gurrin, L, Perrett, K, Koplin, J, Allen, KJ, HealthNuts investigators.
Patterns of tree nut sensitization and allergy in the first 6 years of life in a population-based cohort..
J Allergy Clin Immunol
143(2)
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644 -650.e5
2019
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Frederick, R, Vuillermin, P, Tang, MLK, Ponsonby, A-L, Webster, E, Saffery, R, Collier, F, Barwon Infant Study Investigator Group.
A child with Klinefelter syndrome and both IgE-mediated food allergy and low proportion of naive Treg..
Clin Case Rep
7(2)
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302 -303
2019
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