Thuy-My Le

Thuy-My Le is dermatologist at the department of Dermatology and Allergology of the University Medical Center of Utrecht, The Netherlands. The department is a national and international expertise center for food allergy for adults as well as children.

Her focus area is exploring new treatments of food allergy and predicting treatment response using clinical characteristics, molecular diagnostics, basophil activation, epitope mapping and immune profiling.

She obtained her PhD at the Utrecht University in 2013. The topic of her thesis was the epidemiology, diagnosis and management of food allergy. She is PI in several clinical trials investigating the effect of immunotherapy (sublingual, subcutaneous, epicutaneous and oral route) and biologicals (anti-IgE, BTK-inhibitor) on food allergy. She participated in several European commission funded multicentre food allergy studies: the FAST study on the safety and effectiveness of subcutaneous immunotherapy for fish and the largest ever study on food allergy: EuroPrevall that investigated the prevalence, burden and costs of food allergy in Europe. In the EuroPrevall study she led the analyses and manuscripts on the profiling, prevalence, risk factors and patterns of food allergy across Europe. She participates in European working groups from EAACI e.g. on immunotherapy for food allergy (FIND) and on accidental food exposure risk, in the European cost-action programmes on Core outcome measures for food allergy (COMFA). Thuy-My Le is principal investigator in several investigator initiated food allergy studies and clinical trials. She supervises several PhD- and master students. She is editor and reviewer for different national and international journals, and is speaker and chair at national and international congresses.