Attacking Food Allergies: How Technology can Ease the Path to New Treatments Without the Pain
Advances in flow cytometry could enable researchers to uncover valuable insights about food allergies without allergen exposure.
Jean-Marc Busnel
Jean-Marc Busnel, PhD, is Principal Investigator and Senior Staff Research Scientist at Beckman Coulter Life Sciences. He is a member of the Global Research Team and is co-author of more than 50 peer-reviewed articles in the fields of bioanalytical chemistry, metabolomics, proteomics and whole blood based functional flow cytometry assays. He currently leads a team dedicated to translational research, which recently won the first stage of the FARE Innovation Award Diagnostic Challenge. Together, the team works on further leveraging the capabilities of flow cytometry for patient stratification in various pathological areas such as allergy, autoimmunity, infectious diseases and oncology. To this end, particular attention is given to whole blood based functional flow cytometry assays and to the simplicity of the workflows so that the true potential of flow cytometry could be realized through a required democratization of the technology.