ITN Hayfever Pilot Study Data to be Presented at World Allergy Congress

Data from an Immune Tolerance Network (ITN) hayfever pilot study will be presented at the World Allergy Congress on December 7, 2011 in Cancun, Mexico.

Mohamed Shamji, PhD, (Imperial College London) will be presenting data on the effects of immunotherapy on basophil reactivity in an abstract titled:

Grass pollen allergen-induced surface expression of CD203c, CD63, and CD 107a on CRTH2+ Basophils: Novel Biomarkers for monitoring efficacy of allergen-specific immunotherapy.

This data was collected from a small pilot study that was used to design a larger clinical trial led by Stephen Durham, MD (Imperial College London) comparing the efficacy of two forms of immunotherapy in severe hayfever (the GRASS Study). For more information about this study, visit the website.