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
Ashley, SE, Tan, HT, Peters, R, Allen, KJ, Vuillermin, P, Dharmage, SC, Tang, MLK, Koplin, J, Lowe, A, Ponsonby, A, et al.
Genetic variation at the Th2 immune gene IL13 is associated with IgE‐mediated paediatric food allergy.
Clinical & Experimental Allergy
47(8)
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1032 -1037
2017
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Peters, RL, Koplin, JJ, Gurrin, LC, Dharmage, SC, Wake, M, Ponsonby, A-L, Tang, MLK, Lowe, AJ, Matheson, M, Dwyer, T, et al.
The prevalence of food allergy and other allergic diseases in early childhood in a population-based study: HealthNuts age 4-year follow-up.
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
140(1)
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145 -153.e8
2017
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Zurzolo, GA, Peters, RL, Koplin, JJ, Courten, M, Mathai, ML, Tye‐Din, JA, Tang, MLK, Campbell, DE, Ponsonby, A, Prescott, SL, et al.
The practice and perception of precautionary allergen labelling by the Australasian food manufacturing industry.
Clinical & Experimental Allergy
47(7)
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961 -968
2017
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Tang, M.
Role of nutrition in tolerance development.
Journal of Nutrition & Intermediary Metabolism
8:
65
2017
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Moberley, S, Licciardi, PV, Balloch, A, Andrews, R, Leach, AJ, Kirkwood, M, Binks, P, Mulholland, K, Carapetis, J, Tang, MLK, et al.
Repeat pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in Indigenous Australian adults is associated with decreased immune responsiveness.
Vaccine
35(22)
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2908 -2915
2017
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