Professor Lowe is a Dame Kate Campbell Fellow and Co-Head of the University of Melbourne’s Allergy and Lung Health Unit. He is the principal investigator (PI) of the PEBBLES trial, a NHMRC funded clinical trial using a novel skin barrier intervention for the prevention of eczema and food allergy in infants.He is also a co-PI of the Melbourne Atopy Cohort Study (MACS) a family study of allergic disease, and a co-investigator on HealthNuts, a study to determine the prevalence and risk factors for food allergy. Adrian’s research addresses the natural history of allergic diseases in childhood, and what might have caused the rapid rise in the prevalence of these conditions over the last four decades. His research focuses on the epidemiology of eczema, and strategies to prevent its development and progression into other forms of allergic disease.