**Meet the editor**

Prof. Celso Pereira is a head-chief of Clinical Immunology Unit at Medicine Faculty of Coimbra University, and also the recently created discipline, Clinical Herbal Medicine. In addition, he is a graduated specialist in Immuno-Allergy at Coimbra's University Hospital Centre, at Portugal. He was the past president of the Immuno-Allergy Board of the Portuguese Medical Association. His

main activities include clinical practice, education (pre- and post-graduate), and clinical and laboratorial research. He is a member of national committee for vaccination and a coordinator of some clinical guidelines approved and under application by Portuguese health authorities. He is also a member of a national committee for the diagnostic procedures in the field of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. His scientific interests include the participation and development of several research projects, but now he has focused his interest in the mechanisms of respiratory allergy, specific immunotherapy, and drug interactions with medicinal herbs. He has edited five scientific books, and has more than 120 scientific publications, including book chapters and scientific papers. He has published over 350 abstracts related to the developed research projects and presented his work at scientific events. He was also honored with 36 scientific awards. He was responsible for the first subcutaneous application of latex immunotherapy and for the first long-term sublingual native *Pru p3* desensitization. During his Iberian Chapter Presidency of the Latin-American Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Society, he coordinated an international multicenter study focusing aeroallergen sensitization in the Iberian Peninsula. He is an associate editor of seven scientific journals related to Allergy and Clinical Immunology. He has been participating in the organization of scientific meetings and actively collaborates with the scientific committees of several Medical Scientific Societies.
