Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee

Prof J Brostoff (Chairman)
Ms G W Burrows
Prof G R Gibson
Mr P N Goddard (Secretary)
Prof G Lack
Prof S Murch
Dr M J Radcliffe
Dr J Sanderson
Dr M A Tettenborn
Dr R G Turner

Prof J Brostoff

Professor Jonathan Brostoff, Founder of the Allergy Research Foundation, was Foundation Professor of Allergy and Environmental Health at University College London, Director of the Centre for Allergy Research and Head of the Diagnostic Immunology Laboratory at University College London Hospitals. His textbook 'Food Allergy and Intolerance' with Professor Stephen Challacombe is the major reference text for doctors and scientists working in the field as is his textbook 'Immunology' edited with Professors Roitt and Male - now into the eighth edition. His current position is Senior Research Fellow and Professor Emeritus of Allergy and Environmental Health with respect to the Gastrointestinal Health Research Group at King's College London.

Ms G W Burrows

Gillian Burrows is PA to Professor Jonathan Brostoff and a member of the Secretariat of the Allergy Research Foundation.

Prof G R Gibson

Professor Glenn Gibson completed his PhD in 1986 on the anaerobic bacteriology of marine and estuarine sedimants at the University of Dundee. From there he moved to the MRC Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre in Cambridge to research human gut microbiology. In 1995 he was appointed Head of the Microbiology Department, Institute of Food Research in Reading. In 1999 his research group transferred to the Department of Food Biosciences, University of Reading to instigate a research unit in Food Microbial Sciences.

He is Professor of Food Microbiology, The University of Reading. He also heads the Food Microbial Sciences Research Unit.

He has published over 300 full-length research articles, 10 patents and 8 books on human gut bacteria. He is President and a founder member of the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics.

Mr P N Goddard

Philip Goddard spent more than thirty years in the pharmaceutical industry, the last twenty of them in the international marketing of allergy products. He was subsequently a consultant in the marketing of senior management retirement counselling programmes before joining the Allergy Research Foundation in 1998 as Executive Secretary. He is responsible for all administrative and financial matters including the organisation of the Foundation's educational conferences.

Prof G Lack

Professor Gideon Lack is Head of the Children's Allergy Service at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, and Professor of Paediatric Allergy at King's College London. He is Clinical Lead in Adult and Paediatric Allergy. He read medicine at Oxford University before training as a Paediatrician in New York, and then specialising in Paediatric and Adult Allergy in Denver, Colorado.

He led the Department of Paediatric Allergy and Immunology at St Mary's Hospital, London for 12 years and became Professor of Paediatric Allergy and Immunology at Imperial College London in 2005. He moved to King's College London at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in May 2006.

His research has focused on the prevalence of food allergies in children, and the relationship between food allergies, eczema and asthma. He is currently working on novel immunomodulatory treatments for food allergies and on developing new stategies to prevent the development of allergies and asthma in children and adults.

Prof S Murch

Simon Murch is Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at Warwick Medical School, Coventry. He works as a clinical paediatric gastroenterologist. His research background is in mucosal immunology, with early studies based on the role of macrophage cytokines in intestinal and lung inflammation. These papers contributed to the introduction of anti-TNF therapy in Crohn's disease. He has subsequently worked in the areas of intestinal immune responses in food allergies, in particular in children with multiple food allergies and Non-IgE-mediated food allergies. Simon's other main areas of research have been into mechanisms of intestinal protein leakage and of malnutrition in children from underprivileged countries.

Dr M J Radcliffe

Michael Radcliffe is a physician and his speciality is allergy. For twenty-one years he was a general practitioner in Hampshire, but for the last fifteen years has been an adult allergy medicine specialist in London teaching hospitals, as a Consultant firstly with the University College Hospital NHS Trust and latterly with the Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust. He is also a part-time Clinical Research Fellow in Allergy at the School of Medicine, University of Southampton and has a private practice in Winchester. Michael is an advisor to the Anaphylaxis Campaign and has a research interest in the role of nutrician in allergy and the wider aspects of food and environmental hypersensitivity.

Dr J Sanderson

Dr Jeremy Sanderson is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals where he was appointed in 1995. He qualified in medicine in 1984, training at Charing Cross Hospital and then undertook his postgraduate training in London and in Melbourne, Australia. He is also Senior Clinical Resarch Fellow in Nutritional Sciences, Waterloo Campus, King's College London where he leads a gastrointestinal disease research group.

He has an interest in a range of gastrointestinal disorders, particularly inflammatory bowel disease and the role of diet and bacteria in the irritable bowel syndrome. His research interests in IBD include oral Crohn's disease, pharmacogenetics of immunosuppression and susceptibilty genetics and the riole of bacteria in pathogenesis.

He runs a large specialist IBD clinic at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals. He is a previous Honorary Secretary of the British Society of Gastroenterology and is Medical Advisor Chair of Colitis and Crohn's UK.

Dr M A Tettenborn

Dr Michael Tettenborn is a Consultant Paediatrician working at Frimley Park Hospital. His main activity is in clinical management rather than research, hopefully helping the foundation to achieve a balance between these two aspects, specifically in relation to their training programmes. In his clinical practice, particularly listening to the experiences of patients, he developed a special interest in Allergies (both IgE mediated and non-IgE mediated allergies) in the 1970's.

As a clinician, he advises on the management of acute allergies and on conditions that may be linked to Food Intolerance including, amongst many, bowel problems in children, and Attention Deficit and Autistic Spectrum Disorders. He would want to encourage full recognition of the importance of the bowel flora in triggering these conditions.

Although there have been improvements in service provision since he first developed his interest, Dr Tettenborn remains concerned about the paucity of services for patients with disorders relating to allergy - particularly for those whose symptoms are not recognised as having such a basis.

Dr R G Turner 

Medically educated in London, Richard was partner, teacher and trainer in a large North Hampshire teaching practice. He started the Children's Allergy Clinic at the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital in 1984 and trained further in allergy on a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to the USA in 1987. Richard is currently Associate Specialist in Paediatric Allergy at the Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust and a practitioner with special interest in allergy for the Hampshire PCT. In addition, he is currently a Consultant Allergist at the BMI Hampshire Clinic and medical advisor to Action Against Allergy. Richard is currently researching the provision of adrenaline injectors generically to nurseries and schools.