Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and President for Academic Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System, center; and from left, Scott H. Sicherer, MD, Director of the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Mount Sinai Health System; Prasert Auewarakul, MD, PhD, Deputy Dean of Research, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University; Hugh A. Sampson, MD, Director Emeritus of the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Food Allergy Institute; and Pakit Vichyanond, MD, Director, Samitivej Allergy Institute.
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai recently agreed to collaborate on food allergy research with the Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, and the Samitivej Allergy Institute, prominent medical institutions in Bangkok, Thailand. Initial studies will center on wheat allergies—one of the most common—that appear to be increasing in Thailand. In 2018, researchers from the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine published the results of a rigorous clinical trial showing that more than half of children in the study were successfully desensitized to wheat after a year of oral immunotherapy.