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.