Janet Davies

Assoc Prof Davies leads the Allergy Research Group at the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation QUT and is Assistant Director of Research with the Metro North Hospital and Health Service. She is Principle Investigator of the AusPollen Partnership to establish and implement a national pollen monitoring network. Her work focuses on improving diagnosis, treatment and understanding of the immunological mechanism underlying allergic respiratory diseases. She serves on the the WHO International Union of Immunological Societies Allergen Nomenclature Committee, the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Interest Group on Aerobiology and Air Pollution and the Immunotherapy Working Party of the Australian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy. She is an inventor on a patent granted in Australia and three patent applications under examination that underpin development towards more specific immunodiagnosis and treatment for subtropical grass pollen allergy.