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Professor Philippe Gevaert

Philippe Gevaert, MD, Ph.D., is full professor in Rhinology and Allergy at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Chairman medical education at the Ghent University, Belgium. Further, he is the scientific coordinator of the Allergy Network of the Ghent University Hospital. Since 1998 Philippe is active in the Upper Airway Research Laboratory at the University of Ghent. He is the past Chairman of the ENT section of the EAACI. Currently, his research is focused on local IgE, allergen specific immunotherapy and biologicals in allergic rhinitis and nasal polyps.

Philippe has conducted several academic and industry sponsored clinical trials with novel treatments in nasal polyps and allergic rhinitis and he has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers.

Professor Sanna Toppila-Salmi

Sanna Toppila-Salmi, MD, PhD, Adj. Prof. is a Senior Consultant Otorhinolaryngologist, Department Chief Physician and Director of Helsinki Airway Research Group at the Skin and Allergy Hospital of the Helsinki University Hospital & University of Helinski and Professor at the University of Eastern Finland. Her research group combines epidemiology, genomics, metabolomics and sequence analysis to identify the pathobiology of NERD, type 2 inflammation, CRSwNP, asthma and allergic diseases. Her lab works with human cohorts to identify risk factors, mechanisms, and potential therapies for these disorders using machinge learning data science, sequencing omics approaches and clinical trials.