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The European Centre for Allergy Research Foundation - ECARF, together with the Allergie-Centrum-Charité and the German magazine STERN, has launched an Allergy Portal. Site visitors can directly contact the highly specialised physicians and allergy experts of the Allergie-Centrum-Charité.

Next Live Consultations: 

Monday, 23 June 2008, 16.30h
Monday, 4 August 2008, 16.30h

With Prof. Dr. med. Torsten Zuberbier

In October 2004, some 400 skin doctors analysed numerous international studies on the roughly 15 different forms of hives. The project was conducted under the leadership of the Ga²len, the Global Allergy and Asthma European Network within the 6th framework research program of the European Union, and the European Academy for Allergology and Clinical Immunology EAACI.

The evaluations were intended to lead to uniform European guidelines that would eventually aid in precise identification, classification, and diagnosis of urticaria. The guidelines will likely be officially adopted in the summer of 2005. ...more on this topic in this PDF document (149 kb)

The "Urticaria Symposium 2004" was held under the friendly support of the UCB Institute of Allergy.

Toward the goal of motivating more research in the area of dermatology and other neighbouring disciplines, the ADF/ECARF-Award for European Allergy Research, a prize for promotion of allergological research. was conferred for the first time in 2005. ECARF will award the 5000 euro prize again next year.

Participation is open to all allergological contributions (oral or poster presentation) for the ADF Annual Meeting. The contributions are automatically put through an evaluation process and will be appraised by the jury during the meeting. Contributions whose primary or senior author is also a jury member are excluded.

The ADF is the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dermatologische Forschung.

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