Food Allergy Fund Leadership Forum
November 17, 2025 | Washington, D.C.
In an unprecedented show of federal attention, senior leaders from HHS, NIH, FDA, ARPA-H, and NIAID joined the Food Allergy Fund to discuss how science, policy, and innovation can accelerate prevention, treatment, and cures for food allergies—a public-health crisis that still receives a fraction of the research investment devoted to other diseases of similar scale and severity.
FAF Leadership Forum Content
Meet the Speakers
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Director, National Institutes of Health
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Dr. Alicia Jackson
Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
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Dr. Marty Makary
Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
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Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger
Acting Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
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Corrie Driebusch (Moderator)
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
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Tal Golan
Co-Founder & CEO, Anjo.ai
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Ilana Golant
CEO, Food Allergy Fund
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Dr. Nikole Kimes
Founder & CEO, Siolta Therapeutics
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Michael Nelson
CEO, Intrommune Therapeutics
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Dr. Rima Rachid
Director, Food Allergy Program, Boston Children’s Hospital
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Dr. Carlotta Ronda
Principal Investigator, Microbiome Editing Applications, Innovative Genomics Institute, UC Berkeley
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Liz Essley Whyte (Moderator)
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
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Dr. Brian Wong
President & CEO, RAPT Therapeutics