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FASI is a 501c3 non-profit organization working to transform the lives of people with food allergies

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The Food Allergy Science Initiative (FASI) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 2016. Our mission is to accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries to transform the lives of people with food allergies.

06/18/2026

FASI was founded by parents who experienced firsthand how little was understood about food allergy — and how urgently that needed to change.

Ten years later, that determination has grown into a powerful scientific community advancing our understanding of the disease and how it might one day be treated or prevented.

This anniversary celebrates the founders’ vision, the scientists carrying it forward, and the families who inspire this work every day.

06/16/2026

Your gut has 500 million neurons. For decades, scientists thought they just managed digestion.

FASI researchers discovered they are doing something far more important: actively running part of your immune alarm system, deciding how strong your allergic reaction gets, and potentially holding the key to treating food allergy at its source.

Swipe through Discovery 5 to see what they found.

06/11/2026

It is our 10‑year anniversary—and FASI‑10 Summit registration is LIVE!

We are excited to spotlight the speakers for our session, “Emerging Therapies & Diagnostics in Eosinophilic Esophagitis” This session features leading experts Dr. Jennifer Maloney and Dr. Wayne Shreffler, whose work is shaping the future of food allergy research.

Join us in October as these distinguished researchers share their latest findings and insights—see session details below.

🗓 Wednesday, October 7, 2026 • 3:15–3:55 PM
📍 The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Cambridge, MA
🔗 Register now: https://FASI-10.eventbrite.com

06/09/2026

When FASI began, our co‑founders set out to build something different — a scientific community rooted in collaboration and urgency, because families affected by food allergy deserve real answers.

Ten years later, that bold idea has grown into a powerful network of researchers tackling the most complex challenges in food allergy science. Watching this vision become reality — and knowing families are closer to solutions — is what this milestone is all about.

We are proud of how far this community has come, and even more excited for what the next decade will bring.

06/04/2026

Did you know your nervous system has a direct line to your immune cells — and it may be one of the reasons allergic disease develops?

FASI scientists discovered that nerve cells release two powerful signals that control immune cells called ILC2s — the first responders behind food allergy, asthma, and eczema.

➡️ One signal (NMU) tells these immune cells to fire up and drive an allergic reaction.
➡️ Another signal (CGRP) tells them to calm down and stand down.

In people with allergic disease, this balance may be tipped — with the gas pedal stuck on and the brake not working properly.

This discovery — made across three groundbreaking FASI studies — opened a window into the shared biology of food allergy, asthma, and eczema. The same nerve-immune circuit runs through all of them.

This is what a decade of FASI science looks like. And we are just getting started.

🗓 Join us October 6–7, 2026 at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard for our 10th anniversary symposium.

06/02/2026

It is our 10‑year anniversary—and FASI‑10 Summit registration is LIVE!

We are excited to spotlight the speakers for our session, “New Science and Solutions in Anaphylaxis” This session features leading experts Dr. Matthew Greenhawt, Dr. Stephanie Eisenbarth and Dr. Thomas Severin, whose work is shaping the future of food allergy research.

Join us in October as these distinguished researchers share their latest findings and insights—see session details below.

🗓 Wednesday, October 7, 2026 • 1:55–2:55 PM
📍 The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Cambridge, MA
🔗 Register now: https://FASI-10.eventbrite.com

05/28/2026

It is our 10‑year anniversary—and FASI‑10 Summit registration is LIVE!

We are excited to spotlight the speakers for our session, “Molecular Signatures: Unlocking Biomarkers for Food Allergy” This session features leading experts Dr. Sarita Patil, Dr. Alexander Eggel, and Dr. Daniel Dwyer, whose work is shaping the future of food allergy research.

Join us in October as these distinguished researchers share their latest findings and insights—see session details below.

🗓 Wednesday, October 7, 2026 • 11:55–12:55 PM
📍 The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Cambridge, MA
🔗 Register now: https://FASI-10.eventbrite.com

05/26/2026

As FASI marks its 10-year anniversary, we are grateful to all of the co‑founders who helped shape our mission and guide our growth from the start.

Ellie and Brian Chu, FASI Co-Founders, remind us why this anniversary is not just a date and rather a milestone that reflects what is possible when committed people come together—researchers, partners, donors, and community members—united by a shared purpose to change lives impacted by food allergies.

Here is to the people behind the progress.

05/22/2026

It is our 10‑year anniversary—and FASI‑10 Summit registration is LIVE!

We are excited to spotlight the speakers for our session, “From Bench to Bedside: Next-Generation Therapies in Food Allergies.” This session features leading experts Dr. Sara Prickett and Dr. Niccolò Pengo, whose work is shaping the future of food allergy research.

Join us in October as these distinguished researchers share their latest findings and insights—see session details below.

🗓 Wednesday, October 7, 2026 • 10:15–10:55 AM
📍 The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Cambridge, MA
🔗 Register now: https://FASI-10.eventbrite.com

05/20/2026

Join us tomorrow for our seminar, "Early Bites and Lasting Protection: Can Early Peanut Exposure Shape Lifelong Immunity", with Dr. Gideon Lack, MD, MSc, BS, Professor at King's College London.

🔗 Register now and submit your questions for the live Q&A: https://foodallergyscience.org/seminar-series/

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