DBV Technologies expands Scientific Advisory Board

23-Dec-2009 - France

DBV Technologies (DBV) announced the appointment of US-based food allergy and paediatric asthma specialist Professor Robert Zeiger to its Scientific Advisory Board. In joining the Scientific Advisory Board, Professor Zeiger will provide DBV Technologies’ with access to his expertise in food allergy diagnosis and prevention as well as paediatric asthma diagnosis and treatment. Professor Zeiger’s appointment is of strategic importance to DBV Technologies, as the Company works towards the initiation of its first US Phase I clinical trial for peanut allergy.

Professor Zeiger, a MD, PhD, is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the UCSD School of Medicine in La Jolla, California, United States and Adjunct Physician Investigator for Kaiser Permanente Southern California. Professor Zeiger’s current research activities focus on determining whether high-dose Vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy prevents asthma and allergies in infants, clinical trials in paediatric asthma to determine optimal asthma treatments, and unravelling the effect of childhood asthma on adult lung health. In addition, Professor Zeiger serves on the Medical Advisory Boards for the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) and the Food Allergy Initiative (FAI), lay organizations whose role is to promote food allergy education and provide support for food allergy research.

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