André Knulst

Prof. dr. André C. Knulst is dermatologist and immunologist at the Department of Dermatology/Allergology of the UMC Utrecht. He heads the outpatient department of Allergology and  has a longstanding experience in diagnosis and treatment of patients with allergies, urticaria and angio-edema, with a particular interest in food allergy, urticaria and angio-edema. The Dept. of Dermatology/Allergology is a centre of expertise for eczema, food allergy and urticaria/angio-edema. Prof. Knulst is involved in the training of dermatologists, otolaryngologists, pediatric allergists, and clinical immunologists/internist-allergologists.

He also heads the allergy research. Within the UMC Utrecht there is a close collaboration with the department of Children’s Pulmonology and Allergology and the Center of Translational Immunology of the UMC Utrecht. His research focus is on patient profiling and improvement of food allergy diagnosis a.o. using component resolved diagnostics. He participated in many multicenter studies a.o. the EU sponsored SAFE, CREATE and Europrevall projects. Another research area of particular interest is the development of novel therapeutic options for food allergy. He was involved in the VIPES study on the efficacy and safety of epicutaneously administered peanut and the FAST study on the efficacy of subcutaneous immunotherapy using a hypoallergenic cod fish parvalbumin.