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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