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July 3, 2024 — The Food Allergy Fund is bringing back their successful #thisisnuts challenge on July 4th to raise awareness about food allergies and the need for research. Share your upside-down photos and videos to help us turn allergies upside down!

July 3, 2024 — The Food Allergy Fund is bringing back their successful #thisisnuts challenge on July 4th to raise awareness about food allergies and the need for research. Share your upside-down photos and videos to help us turn allergies upside down!

New York, NY (May 31, 2024) – The Food Allergy Fund (FAF), the leading nonprofit that funds food allergy research, has marked a significant milestone in the field: A first-ever Food Allergy Research Roadmap, a comprehensive guide designed to accelerate medical discovery and development progress within the next five years.

May 22, 2024 — On May 22, 2024 join us for our Signature Research Dinner, which is an intimate opportunity to learn about the most innovative and current food allergy research against a backdrop of historic Old Masters art.

Nov 30, 2023 — The Food Allergy Fund, a non-profit committed to bridging the funding gap for scientific research into food allergies, announced today it is accepting proposals for its Repurposing Innovators Research Grant. The grant(s) will be awarded to the researcher or team of researchers who demonstrates the most innovative approach to repurposing an existing FDA-approved drug for prevention of onset of food allergies, prevention or treatment of food anaphylaxis, or an improved therapeutic for maintaining food allergic tolerance in previously allergic patients.

New York, NY (April 5, 2022) — The Food Allergy Fund, a non-profit committed to bridging the funding gap for scientific research into food allergies, announced today it is accepting proposals for its first Microbiome Challenge. The grant(s) will be awarded to the researcher or team of researchers with the most evidence based and innovative approach to mitigating the causes and symptoms of food allergies via the skin and gut microbiome. The grant(s) will be awarded up to $500,000.

November 17, 2021 – Together with the Food Allergy Fund, Johnson & Johnson Innovation and the Healthy Baby Initiative within Janssen Research & Development’s World Without Disease Accelerator (WWDA) are proud to launch the Food Allergy Prevention QuickFire Challenge with the aim to identify potential solutions to prevent children from developing food allergy in the early years of their life.

New York, NY, (December 18, 2020) — The Food Allergy Fund (FAF) is hosting its first-ever Vision Summit to preview the latest research and innovations aimed to prevent and treat food allergies. Speakers include world-renowned researchers, entrepreneurs, policy leaders and advocates. The event will take place on a password protected page of the FAF website on December 18, 2020 from 12 – 4:30 p.m. EST.

New York, NY, (May 26, 2020) — To mark Food Allergy Awareness month and to stay safe at home due to COVID-19, the Food Allergy Fund is hosting its first-ever virtual Summit.

She is a high-powered public relations executive and food allergy mom on a mission. Ilana Golant doesn’t just talk about the need for far more food allergy research. She acts.

Washington, D.C. (July 11, 2019) — The Food Allergy Fund will host its next Summit in Washington, D.C. this fall to share the latest scientific research, improved policies, and innovative ideas to help the estimated 32 million Americans living with food allergies. The event will be on November 14, 2019 at the Newseum. 

Washington, D.C. (June 4, 2019) – The Food Allergy Fund joined fellow Food Allergy Advocates and Chris Taylor, Vice President, NYSE Listings and Services, to ring The Opening Bell® at the New York Stock Exchange on May 30, 2019 as part of Food Allergy Awareness Month. 

By Guest Blogger Erin Malawer, Executive Director, AllergyStrong

There was a bounce in everyone’s step as we filed into New York’s Paley Center for Media the morning of April 4th.  The crisp spring air was as refreshing as the innovative inaugural Food Allergy Fund Summit which brought together scientists, researchers, doctors, psychologists, entrepreneurs, celebrity chefs and advocates to have a discussion about the present and future of food allergies.

The Food Allergy Fund hosted the inaugural Food Allergy Fund Summit today at the Paley Center for Media in New York, NY to help change the national conversation on food allergies. 

The Food Allergy Fund is hosting the inaugural Food Allergy Fund Summit on Thursday, April 4 to change the national conversation on food allergies.

Calls for Proposals Inspiring the Most Innovative Ideas for Turning Food Allergies Upside Down

ABC discusses the Food Allergy Fund’s campaign which brings awareness to food allergy research by encouraging people to post pictures upside down.

Ilana Golant, our founder and CEO, joins Good Day alongside Amy DiElsi and her son Jack to share how to protect kids with food allergies in the classroom.

We launched a new campaign in July to bring awareness and raise funding for food allergy research. We’re encouraging families to post pictures upside down using the hashtag #ThisIsNuts.

The TODAY Show is helping spread awareness of food allergies by using the hashtag #thisisnuts!

What started as a New Year’s resolution became a brand new organization— Food Allergy Fund—flipping food allergy fundraising on its head.

People are participating in the #ThisisNuts challenge by posting photos of themselves upside down to raise awareness to the millions who suffer from nut allergies. Instagram star Bryce Xavier shows us how it’s done live on TODAY.