Pediatric Allergy & Immunology - Golisano Children's Hospital

12/16/2025

Our group is leading the discovery of B cell and antibody mediated immunity in traditional farming lifestyle infants protected against early allergic diseases. Check out our recent front cover awarded publication showing a possible role for human milk antibodies in protection against egg allergy.

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/childrens-hospital/allergy/news?start=01-01-2025&end=12-31-2025

The clinical trial to assess the role of antibodies in protection against egg and peanut allergy is already ongoing!

Children who grow up in farming communities have long been known to develop far fewer allergies than their urban peers. A new study from the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) offers one possible reason why: their immune systems may mature faster, and breast milk appears to play an im...

12/01/2025

Our team just published a study that found dietary food allergens in human milk. Some but not all mothers secrete dietary proteins in their milk- overall levels are super low. The next phase of the study is now ongoing as a clinical trial assessing their effect on the developing fetus and breastfeeding baby! Check out our ESCAPE study.

Secretion of Peanut Protein With IgE Crosslinking Capacity in Human Milk. First author: Amy D. Burris; corresponding author: Kirsi M. Järvinen. Read the article here: doi.org/10.1111/all.70066

10/27/2025

Upload for free the latest guidance from the experts on nutritional management of FPIES hot off the press!

09/04/2025

Help us understand how maternal diet during pregnancy and breastfeeding protects your baby against food allergies!
https://redcap.link/ESCAPEScreen

09/04/2025

Help us help babies!
Interested? Provide your info at the link: https://redcap.link/djf9fs0z

08/14/2025

The NIH has just announced our newest food allergy study!

NIH trial to assess if eating peanuts, eggs during pregnancy, breastfeeding protects infants.

08/16/2024

Fall allergy season is here! 🍁🍂 The American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology has some helpful tips to manage symptoms:

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (August 8, 2024) – It’s too early to think about fall allergies – isn’t it? “If you suffer from fall allergies, you should be thinking now, in mid-August, about starting the medications you normally take to treat symptoms,” says allergist Gailen Marshall, MD, PhD,...

07/11/2024

What are the challenges of managing food allergies in college?!

05/14/2024

✨Did you know this week is Food Allergy Awareness Week? This week provides an opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of managing food allergies! 🌟

10/25/2023

You can help researchers understand the development of allergies and how your environment might play a role! BABE Study.

Screening survey: https://redcap.link/BABE .
(HINT: If you are in the FB app, open the link in a new window, not the app, and turn your phone sideways to view)

You can also reach the study team at:
Allergy_Research@urmc.rochester.edu

10/11/2023

📅🎟️Allergy Advocates of NY upcoming event:

"Join us for this year’s Action Awards event, under our new name, Allergy Advocates NY and back in person for the first time since 2020. While our name has changed, our focus continues to be ensuring the safety of those is our community managing life threatening allergies.

Honoring the work of one of our Board Members and your colleague Anitha Shrikhande as well as former Assembly Member Tom Abinanti who was instrumental in sponsoring much of the legislation that supports our mission."

Registration & information:

join us for this year’s Action Awards event, under our new name, Allergy Advocates NY and back in person for the first time since 2020. While our name has changed, our focus continues to be ensuring the safety of those is our community managing life threatening allergies.

06/07/2023

Here are some tips for our patients to stay safe while the air quality remains poor: