Prof. Adrian J. Lowe obtained his doctorate in epidemiology in 2008  from the University of Melbourne. Currently, he 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, an NHMRC-funded clinical trial using a novel skin barrier intervention for the prevention of eczema and food allergy in infants. Furthermore, 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. His research focuses on the epidemiology of eczema and strategies to prevent its development and progression into other forms of allergic diseases.