The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Issues
Lack of awareness
Shortage of medical specialists
Stigma
Allergy triggers which include urbanisation, industrialisation, pollution and climate change – factors that are not expected to reduce in the foreseeable future
Many patients do not report their symptoms or are not correctly diagnosed

Priorities
Personalised allergy medicine
Research to prevent and cure allergic disease, actively supporting research in allergen immunotherapy which holds great promise for targeted allergy management
Translational research in allergy to bring promising new biotechnological innovations, (e.g. biological agents, vaccines of modified allergen molecules and engineered components for allergy diagnosis) closer to clinical practice
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