Prof. Mariana C. Castells Harvard Medical School, USA

Mariana Castells, M.D., Ph.D. is a clinician-scientist with over 30 years of experience in allergy and
Mariana Castells, M.D., Ph.D., is a clinician-scientist with over 30 years of experience in allergy and immunology and over 200 publications. She is the Director of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Mastocytosis Center,... read moreone of the few nationally and internationally recognized centers of excellence, which provides diagnosis, management, and treatment options for patients with mastocytosis and mast cell activation disorders. She is actively involved in mast cell-related research and is the PI on several clinical trials, including Blueprint, Cogent, and Thelios. She is also the Director of the Drug Hypersensitivity and Desensitization Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. This center has provided over 900 high-risk desensitizations per year for over 20 years to patients with cancer and chronic inflammatory diseases to maintain these patients on their first line therapies. Dr. Castells is also a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Editor in Chief of Current Allergy and Asthma Reports.