Update: In January 2016, the CHILD Study video was awarded first place in this competition. The CHILD Study whiteboard video is one of 13 entrants in the 2015 CIHR-“IHDCYH Talks” Video Competition. For the entire month of November, 2015, the …
Dr. Meghan Azad, a former AllerGen trainee turned Network investigator, is working to understand the early-life origins of health and disease. Using data collected from AllerGen’s CHILD Study, Dr. Azad’s research focuses in on how breastfeeding and breast milk composition …
New research using data from participants in the CHILD Study explores the impact on the infant gut microbiota of the use of maternal antibiotics during childbirth, and examines whether or not breastfeeding modifies these effects during the infant’s first year of …
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A new study, 30 September 2015 in Science Translational Medicine, found that infants at high risk of developing asthma had low levels of four specific gut bacteria in the first three months of life. It is the first research to …
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Dr. Anita Kozyrskyj, an AllerGen investigator and a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta—together with a team of CHILD Study researchers from across Canada—has received a five-year operating grant, valued at over $500,000, from the …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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AllerGen investigator 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, a …
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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 …
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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 …
CHILD Study assesses environmental exposures for over 3,200 babies Read more »
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: …