AllerGen’s CHILD Study enables the microbiome research featured in “Say Hello to Your Little Friends” (Globe & Mail, June 8, 2015). The article profiles Dr. Brett Finlay, a microbiologist at The University of British Columbia, who uses CHILD Study data … Continued
Dr. Catherine Laprise, a co-investigator with the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, spoke, in a French-language interview, with RadioCanada on May 23, 2015, to discuss how 3,500 Canadian families are helping scientists uncover the origins of asthma and … Continued
Today’s Parent magazine (May 2015) provides a food allergy research “checkup” in its article “The Good News on Food Allergies.” In the article, researchers from AllerGen’s Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study and the Canadian Food Allergy Strategic Team … Continued
A new study emerging from AllerGen’s Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study has revealed an association between sensitivity to allergens and exposure to traffic-related air pollution during infancy. The study, “Perinatal Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Atopy at … Continued
CHILD Study Director Dr. Malcolm Sears has been honoured with an Award for Leadership in Health Research, presented by the Asthma Society of Canada (ASC). Dr. Sears is the Co-Director of AllerGen’s ground-breaking Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, … Continued
Researchers from AllerGen’s Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study have deeply assessed indoor and outdoor environmental exposures for 3,217 Canadian babies—an unprecedented accomplishment for any birth cohort. The CHILD Study is examining how a child’s environment during pregnancy and … Continued
A new publication using CHILD Study data reports new findings on the relationship between changes in infants’ intestinal bacteria and allergic sensitization to milk, egg or peanut at 12 months of age. The paper “Infant gut microbiota and food sensitization: … Continued
CHILD investigator Dr. Meghan Azad was pleased to join a conversation on maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates in Ottawa, ON, on Wednesday, February 25. The moderated discussion focused on … Continued
Dr. Meghan Azad, a CHILD Study associate investigator and assistant professor in pediatrics & child health at the University of Manitoba, is working to understand the early-life origins of health and disease. Using data collected from the CHILD Study, Dr. … Continued
The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) has selected a 2013 paper by CHILD Study researchers to receive the Bruce Squires Award. The honour is “awarded annually to the author(s) of the research paper published in the journal (during the previous … Continued