Milic, Andelija
Addison-Smith, Beth
Jones, Penelope J.
Beggs, Paul J.
Erbas, Bircan
Davies, Janet M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Health and Human Services, State Government of Victoria
Article History
Received: 15 January 2019
Accepted: 19 March 2019
First Online: 5 April 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: JMD declares that QUT owns patents and patent applications (AU2008/316301; US PTO 14/311944; PCT/AU2015/050348; PCT/AU2014/000630/WO2014_201499) for which she is a named inventor. JMD leads the NHMRC AusPollen Partnership Project (GNT 1116107) with matching cash and in-kind co-sponsorship from The Australasian Society for Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Asthma Australia, Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Stallergenes Australia and Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Switzerland. JMD is an investigator of the BOM’s Victorian Thunderstorm Asthma Pollen Surveillance Project and has received grants from the NHMRC, Australian Research Council (DP170101630; DP190100376), National Foundation for Medical Research Innovation, the Allergy and Immunology Foundation of Australasia, Asthma Australia, Queensland University of Technology and contracted research grant from Stallergenes (France), in-kind provision of materials from ThermoFisher (Sweden) and services from Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology (QLD, Australia). JMD’s institute has received Honorarium payments and travel expenses for education sessions and conference presentations from Stallergenes Australia, GlaxoSmithKlien, Wymedical, and Meda Pharmaceuticals. PJB received research grants from Australian Research Council Project (DP170101630) and NHMRC Project (APP1116107) and has been consulted/contacted by BOM (2017-2020) and Office of Environment and Heritage, NSW (2018-2019). Other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of QUT and the Australian Guidelines for Responsible Conduct of Research including the 1964 Helsinki declaration. The study was approved by the QUT Human Research Ethics Committee (1800000161).
: Informed consent was obtained from all study participants.