Short-Term Research Fellowships
The World Allergy Organization (WAO) offers up to three Short-Term Research Fellowships each year, to support junior allergists to visit a center of their choice to learn a research technique. The envisaged duration of each attachment is 2-3 weeks. WAO will contribute up to $2,500 US, to include travel and accommodation, for each Short-Term Fellowship.
2008 Short-Term Research Fellowship
Priority will be given to junior clinicians within five years of award of the most recent professional degree, who are specializing in allergy and who are affiliated to an academic department or clinical institute. Applicants must be current members of a WAO member society.The Short-Term Fellowships will be applied to a project which meets one of the WAO Research Priorities:
- Genetic factors involved in the development of allergic disease and response to treatment
- Allergen characterization and standardization
- Clinical and basic studies in allergy and asthma
Reviews of the work conducted under WAO's Research Fellowship program
Dr. Matteo Bonini - "Methodological tools for epidemiological and clinical studies in sports allergy" (PDF)
Dr. Eleonara Dehlink - "Is Fc-epsilon-RI an antigen uptake/presentation receptor in the intestinal mucosa involved in the initiation of allergic immune responses in the gastro-intestinal tract? an in vitro approach" (PDF)Dr. Dalia Helmy El-Ghoneimy - "Skin prick test in the early diagnosis of atopy in infants and children and immunotherapeutic modalities" (PDF)
Dr. Daniel Potaczek - "The Genetic variability of alpha chain of high-affinity IgE receptor gene and its expression" (PDF)
Long-Term Research Fellowship
The World Allergy Organization (WAO) offers one Long-Term Research Fellowship, to commence each year. The Fellowship will support a junior allergist following an approved research program at a WAO proposed host center. WAO will contribute a monthly stipend up to $1,700 USD and once-yearly travel expenses between the home country and the host center.
2007 Long-Term Research Fellowship
Andrea Vereda Ortiz is currently studying Comparative Characterization of Legume Reactivity between Patients of Spain and the U.S., under the supervision of Dr. Hugh Sampson at the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.2008 Long-Term Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Liliana Cifuentes from Cartagena, Colombia, who has been awarded this year's Long-Term Research Fellowship! Dr. Cifuentes will study Genetic Risk Factors for Atopy and Atopic Diseases - A Genomewide Approach, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Med. Dr. Phil. Johannes Ring at the Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Technische Universität München, Germany.2010 Long-Term Research Fellowship
Advertisement for the Long-Term Research Fellowship will begin in the summer of 2009. Please contact the WAO Secretariat (e-mail: info@worldallergy.org) for more information.
