Euan Tovey

Euan Tovey was a research scientist leading a small team in the Allergen Research Laboratories at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research.

He published over 120 articles in the area of asthma, allergies, viruses, house dust mites, personal exposure, allergen avoidance, fungi, hay fever and biochemical analytic methods. He was soft-funded all his career, generally from NHMRC project grants, a research fellowship, with a brief sojourn co-founding a spin-out, VC-funded company Inhalix, based on his IP in the areas of air sampling and allergen identification. Along with a couple of colleagues he was the originator of the series of conferences, Mites Asthma and Domestic Design, the most recent being held in November 2011. see, www.madd5.org

Euan passed away in 2024.