Pipeline

Developing Assays Across Food Allergens

AllerGenis’ researchers are developing a pipeline of assays across a broad array of food allergens. Founded on the epitope mapping research of Hugh Sampson, MD, of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, our diagnostic technology subdivides allergenic proteins into smaller peptides, called epitopes, and measures the reactivity of a patient’s IgE to these epitopes. The platform uses a high-throughput, bead-based epitope assay (BBEA) to analyze IgE reactivity to discrete food allergen epitopes from only a few microliters of patient plasma in a CLIA certified, clinical lab setting.