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Virtual Summit Content

Welcome Remarks

  • Ilana Golant, Founder & CEO, Food Allergy Fund


Food Allergy Prevention Global Challenge Announcement

  • Ilana Golant, Founder & CEO, Food Allergy Fund in conversation with

  • Dr. Richard Insel, Global Head, Healthy Baby Initiative, World Without Disease Accelerator, Global External Innovation, Johnson & Johnson


Breakthrough Research: Innovation at UCLA

  • Dr. Manish Butte, E. Richard Stiehm Endowed Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UCLA

  • Dr. André Nel, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Chief of NanoMedicine, UCLA, Research Director of the California NanoSystems Institute


Innovating for Food Allergy: CEOs Paving the Future

  • Moderated by Julie Zeveloff, Editor-in-Chief, Insider | Life Division

  • Paul Abrahams, CEO, Reacta Biotech

  • Matt Bomes, Co-Founder, Backstop Health

  • Samir Patel, CEO, Moonlight Therapeutics


Developments in Clinical Trials

  • Moderated by Susan Weissman, Research Advocate & Author, Feeding Eden

  • Dr. James Baker, Director, Mary H. Weiser Food Allergy Center, University of Michigan

  • Dr. Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, Director, Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, NYU Langone


Food Allergy Advocacy in a post-COVID World

  • Moderated by Gwen Smith, Editor, Allergic Living

  • Emily Brown, Founder & CEO, Food Equality Initiative

  • Lianne Mandelbaum, Founder, No Nut Traveler

  • Thomas Silvera, President & Co-Founder, Elijah-Alavi Foundation


2022 Preview from Washington, D.C.


FDA: A Briefing with the Acting Commissioner

  • Dr. Janet Woodcock, Acting Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)


NIH: Research Priorities Overview

  • Alkis Togias, MD, Branch Chief, Allergy, Asthma and Airway Biology, NIH


Just Like You: Food Allergies Film Preview


Speakers Include

Agenda

Welcome Remarks

Ilana Golant, Founder & CEO, Food Allergy Fund

Food Allergy Prevention Global Challenge Announcement

Ilana Golant, Founder & CEO, Food Allergy Fund in conversation with

Dr. Richard Insel, Global Head, Healthy Baby Initiative, World Without Disease Accelerator, Global External Innovation, Johnson & Johnson

Breakthrough Research: Innovation at UCLA

Dr. Manish Butte, E. Richard Stiehm Endowed Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UCLA

Dr. André Nel, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Chief of NanoMedicine, UCLA, Research Director of the California NanoSystems Institute

Innovating for Food Allergy: CEOs Paving the Future

Moderated by Julie Zeveloff, Editor-in-Chief, Insider | Life Division

Paul Abrahams, CEO, Reacta Biotech

Matt Bomes, Co-Founder, Backstop Health

Samir Patel, CEO, Moonlight Therapeutics

Developments in Clinical Trials

Moderated by Susan Weissman, Research Advocate & Author, Feeding Eden

Dr. James Baker, Director, Mary H. Weiser Food Allergy Center, University of Michigan

Dr. Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, Director, Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, NYU Langone

Food Allergy Advocacy in a post-COVID World

Moderated by Gwen Smith, Editor, Allergic Living

Emily Brown, Founder & CEO, Food Equality Initiative

Lianne Mandelbaum, Founder, No Nut Traveler

Thomas Silvera, President & Co-Founder, Elijah-Alavi Foundation


2022 Preview from Washington, D.C.

FDA: A Briefing with the Acting Commissioner

Dr. Janet Woodcock, Acting Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

NIH: Research Priorities Overview

Alkis Togias, MD, Branch Chief, Allergy, Asthma and Airway Biology, NIH

Just Like You: Food Allergies Film Preview

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