Drs. Maria Glymour, Andrew Stokes, and Deborah Carr will lead the Boston University-Quantitative Population Science and Healthy Cognitive Aging Research Program (BU-SHARP) to foster national research collaboration on preventing and ameliorating the consequences of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in disproportionately affected populations.

Some 33 million Americans have severe food allergies. Now, researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital may have found a promising solution. In a small clinical trial, Rima Rachid, MD, director of the Food Allergy Program and the Allergen Immunotherapy Program, and Talal Chatila, MD, director of translational immunology, and their colleagues found that some participants with peanut allergies experienced a higher tolerance to peanuts months after receiving a fecal transplant from a healthy donor without food allergies. Their findings are published today in Science Translational Medicine.