The Lucy Falkiner Fellowship

Dr Euan Tovey (2004)

Dr Euan Tovey was awarded the Lucy Falkiner Fellowship in 2004 for his research project, Use of Novel Techniques to Measure and Characterise Exposure to Rat Allergens, as risk factors for Asthma in inner-city children, in the NYC Underground.

The fellowship allowed Dr Tovey to travel to New York to teach allergen exposure assessment methodologies to investigators from the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Centre. These novel methodologies were used to measure previously undetectable rat and cat allergens in the New York City underground system.

In return, Dr Ginger Chew, a leading US researcher in exposure and allergy to fungi, travelled to Sydney to spend a month in Dr Tovey’s laboratories.