Food allergy

Group Leader
Maria Gabriella Giuffrida

Istituto

Istituto per le Scienze delle Produzioni Alimentari – ISPA Unità operativa di TORINO

Via Leonardo da Vinci 44, Grugliasco (TO)

www.ispa.cnr.it

Membri del Laboratorio

Maria Gabriella Giuffrida (Director of research), Laura Cavallarin (Director of research), Cristina Lamberti (Researcher), Simona Cirrincione (Researcher), Beatrice Aiuto (PhD Student), Elena Gosso (PhD student).

Attività

Isolation, identification and discovery of relevant food allergen proteins

Allergenomics

Allergenic risk assessment

Strumenti / Tecnologie

Proteome package technologies: 1DE, 2DE immunoblotting, image analysis, protein identification by mass spectrometry Q Exactive™ Plus Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap. ELISA.

Altre informazioni

Maggiori collaborazioni e progetti

Member of EAACI (European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology)

CRT foundation: “Induction of tolerance to an allergenic food as a possible treatment for the allergic child: the case of walnut allergy”

EU project (PRIMA): Circular and Inclusive utilisation of alternative PROteins in the MEDiterranean value chains (CIPROMED)

Collaboration with Professor Karin Hoffmann-Sommergruber leader of the Molecular Allergology group, Medical University of Wien.

Collaboration with Italian allergologist