An international trial of a vaccine which scientists hope will allow coeliacs to abandon their gluten free diet is being rolled out in Australia.
The treatment will allow the immune system’s abnormal toxic response to gluten to be reprogrammed, helping 160,000 Australians with coeliac disease to avoid a strict lifelong gluten free diet.
The Australian trials will start at the Royal Melbourne Hospital Clinical Trials Centre in Melbourne, followed by Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Mackay and the Sunshine Coast.