Investigator, Other, Ext Fund Pediatric Allergy Group, Mass General Research Institute

autistic disorder; food allergies; food hypersensitivity; immunotherapy; metabolites; non-ige mediated disease; oral immunotherapy; quantitative trait heritable; rna profiles; social behavior Dr. Virkud's research focuses on the  phenotyping different patients with food allergy and understanding the mechanisms of investigational therapies for food allergy.  Areas of active investigation include (1) safety of investigational therapies such as oral immunotherapy and predicting  which patients are most likely to benefit, (2) studying metabolite and RNA profiles of patients with food allergy, (3) investigating non-IgE mediated disease, like cow's milk protein intolerance in collaboration with the Gastrointestinal Microbiome and Allergic Proctocolitis (GMAP) Study .  She works  with numerous collaborators including from the Consortium for Food Allergy Research , the Broad Insititute, other members of the MGHfC Food Allergy Center and the Channing Division of Network Medicine.