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 Allergy Immunology Research Group and Director of the Allergy Translation Centre at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Professorial Fellow in 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’ experience in the investigation of basic immunological mechanisms underlying allergic disease pathogenesis, and more than 15 years 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 clincal 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 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 Allergy Immunology Research Group and Director of the Allergy Translation Centre at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Professorial Fellow in 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’ experience in the investigation of basic immunological mechanisms underlying allergic disease pathogenesis, and more than 15 years 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 clincal 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
Suaini, NHA, Koplin, JJ, Peters, RL, Sasaki, M, Ellis, JA, Martino, DJ, Lowe, AJ, Tang, MLK, Ponsonby, A-L, Gurrin, LC, et al.
Children with East Asian-Born Parents Have an Increased Risk of Allergy but May Not Have More Asthma in Early Childhood.
The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice
7(2)
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539 -547.e3
2019
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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.
The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice
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, 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 Review of Clinical Immunology
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, investigators, H, et al.
Patterns of tree nut sensitization and allergy in the first 6 years of life in a population-based cohort.
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
143(2)
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644 -650.e5
2019
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