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Mimi Tang
Mimi Tang is an Australian immunologist allergist specialized in food oral immunotherapy, such as pairing exposure to peanut proteins with probiotics.[1] She is a professor at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. EducationTang attended the University of Melbourne for her undergraduate and graduate studies, earning her MBBS in 1986 and PhD in 1995.[2] Her 1994 thesis was titled Interleukin-4 and Interferon-Gamma Production in Healthy Nonatopic Children and Children with Atopic Disease.[3] Career and researchTang has served as the Allergy Translation Director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) since 2016.[2] That same year, she founded Prota Therapeutics, continuing to serve as its CEO to license food immunotherapies developed at MCRI.[4] Her research has ranged from identifying the immunological pathways of peanut allergies to studying how probiotics containing the bacterial species Lactobacillus rhamnosus can improve one's tolerance to food oral immunotherapy.[5][6] Aside from her traditional research output of journal articles and textbook chapters, Tang co-authored the book Kid's Food Allergies for Dummies, aimed at educating parents on recognizing, managing, and treating food allergies.[7] Tang is currently on the editorial board for the scientific journals Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology, and World Allergy Organization Journal.[8][9][10] She is a member of the anaphylaxis and pediatric committees of the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA), Asia-Pacific Association of Allergology, Asthma, and Clinical Immunology (APAAACI) House of Delegates, World Allergy Organization (WAO) board, and International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) Primary Immunodeficiency Expert committee.[11] References
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