Dr David Martino

Team Leader
Population Health
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia

Academician Gastroenterology
Biography

Dr Martino is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Peter Doherty fellow in the field of epigenetics in allergic disease . He completed his PhD at the University of Western Australia on the topic of gene expression profiling in children with food allergy. He currently holds a Post-doctoral position with the Centre for Food and Allergy Research and an Honorary Research Fellow appointment with the University of Melbourne.

Research Intrest

Gastro & Food Allergy

List of Publications
D’Vaz N, Meldrum SJ, Dunstan JA, Martino D, McCarthy S, Metcalfe J, Tulic MK, Mori TA, Prescott SL. Postnatal fish oil supplementation in high-risk infants to prevent allergy: randomized controlled trial. Pediatrics. 2012 Oct 1;130(4):674-82.
Martino DJ, Bosco A, McKenna KL, Hollams E, Mok D, Holt PG, Prescott SL. T‐cell activation genes differentially expressed at birth in CD4+ T‐cells from children who develop IgE food allergy. Allergy. 2012 Feb 1;67(2):191-200.
Martino DJ, Tulic MK, Gordon L, Hodder M, Richman TR, Metcalfe J, Prescott SL, Saffery R. Evidence for age-related and individual-specific changes in DNA methylation profile of mononuclear cells during early immune development in humans. Epigenetics. 2011 Sep 1;6(9):1085-94.