The Consortium for Food Allergy Research (CoFAR) was established in fiscal year (FY) 2005 to support clinical research on food allergy. It has been renewed multiple times, most recently in FY 2024, to continue conducting clinical trials and observational studies on many aspects of food allergy.
Main Areas of Focus
- To identify the mechanisms underlying the development of new food allergy and the mechanisms of outgrowing food allergy (i.e., emergence of oral tolerance to food allergens)
- To develop immune intervention strategies for the treatment and the prevention of food allergy
- To develop biomarkers to improve and simplify the diagnosis of food allergy
- To identify the genes and the epigenetic alterations associated with food allergy
Currently Funded Projects
CoFAR comprises one Leadership Center and ten Clinical Research Centers (CRCs).
Leadership Center
Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
Principal Investigators: Robert A. Wood (JHU), Supinda Bunyavanich and Scott H. Sicherer
(Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
Grant number UM1-AI182034-01
Clinical Research Centers
Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute
Principal Investigator: Stacie M. Jones
Grant number U01-AI181962-01
Boston Children's Hospital
Principal Investigator: Rima Rachid
Grant number U01-AI181964-01
Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center
Principal Investigators: Amal Halim Assa’ad, Marc E. Rothenberg
Grant number U01-AI181966-01
Icahn School Of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Principal Investigator: Scott H. Sicherer
Grant number U01-AI181883-01
Johns Hopkins University
Principal Investigator: Robert A. Wood
Grant number U01-AI182032-01
Northwestern University at Chicago
Principal Investigators: Ruchi S. Gupta, Maria Cecilia Berin
Grant number U01-AI181897-01
Stanford University
Principal Investigators: Sayantani B. Sindher, R. Sharon Chinthrajah
Grant number U01-AI182039-01
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Principal Investigators: James R. Baker, Johann Eli Gudjonsson, Charles F. Schuler
Grant number U01-AI181882-01
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Principal Investigators: Edwin Kim, Corinne Keet
Grant number U01-AI182033-01
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Principal Investigators: Leonard B. Bacharier, Rachel Glick Robison
Grant number U01-AI181927-01