Competing Interests Statement
The authors report no competing interests for this project. Outside the scope of this project, Professor Davies receives grant funding for related grass pollen allergy research from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (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, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Stallergenes Australia, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Switzerland as well as the Australian Research Council, National Foundation for Medical Research Innovation with co-sponsorship from Abionic Switzerland, The Emergency Medicine Foundation. In the past five years Professor Davies has also received grant funding from QUT Catapult scheme, Queensland Health, Bureau of Meteorology and Victorian state Department of Health and Human Servcies. She is an inventor on patents assigned to QUT. Her institute has received Honorarium payments and travel expenses for education sessions and conference presentations from Stallergenes Australia, Wymedical, and Meda Pharmaceuticals.