Dr. Leonard Bacharier's research is focused on clinical research to help understand and improve the care of children with allergic and respiratory diseases, with a focus on asthma and food allergy. His clinical/translational research efforts are directed at the pathogenesis of allergies and asthma in early life and approaches to asthma management throughout childhood, including multi-center, federally funded clinical trials in asthma. He is actively studying novel treatment strategies for adolescents with severe asthma. Dr. Bacharier also collaborates with multiple investigators and research groups around the nation studying factors related to the development, prevention, and management of childhood asthma and food allergies. He also co-leads the Vanderbilt University Medical Center CoFAR Clinical Research Center, part of the NIAID CoFAR program studying novel approaches to the diagnosis and management of food allergies.