Grayson Lab
The Grayson Lab studies how allergic diseases, like food allergy and asthma, develop, how respiratory viral infections can drive that development and how allergic disease affects the antiviral immune response in the lung.
Allergic diseases are increasing worldwide, but it is not known why they are increasing. Asthma is a major chronic disease in children leading to significant healthcare costs and school absences. Why children develop asthma is not known, although having a severe respiratory viral infection early in life greatly increases a child’s risk of developing asthma.
The Grayson Lab hopes to be able to understand the mechanisms that underlie the development of asthma and allergies to develop treatments and primary prevention strategies. Using animal models, as well as human samples, its team uses a variety of scientific techniques, including flow cytometry, tissue culture, qPCR and RNAseq.
