With great honor, we announce that Prof. Giorgio Walter Canonica and Prof. Enrico Heffler have been officially appointed as the Editors-in-Chief of Exploration of Asthma & Allergy (EAA), a three-year post that takes effect in April 2022.

Prof. Canonica, graduated at Medical University of Genoa and since 2017 to present, he serves as Full Professor of Humanitas University and he conducted clinical immunology and allergology research at Biomedicum-Uppsala University and MUSC-Medical University of South Carolina. Prof. Canonica has H-index of 119 and published peer-reviewed papers over 900, he specialized in Asthma & Allergy, which including but not limited to Mechanisms & Treatments, including Pharmacological treatments, Biologics and Allergen ImmunoTherapy in the context of Precision & Personalized Medicine. More information about Prof. Canonica can be found at https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8467-2557.

“I accepted to be Editor-in-Chief of Exploration of Asthma and Allergy with enthusiasm for several reasons:

- although quite a few journals in the field are publishing papers of interest I realized a new initiative, as Exploration, could be leading innovation in terms of basic and clinical science integration, application of new technologies to clinical research and data analysis, proposal of new visions derived from original data.

- nowadays a multidisciplinary approach and integration of knowledge is, and it will further become, crucial in a fruitful management of our patients: we will focus on

- integration of Evidence Based Medicine with Real World data will indicate how best evaluate and outline clinical and therapeutic approaches.

The intent is to Explore, at our best, to provide scientific support to a better life of our patients.” 

Giorgio Walter Canonica
Editor-in-Chief of Exploration of Asthma & Allergy

Prof. Heffler, an Allergist and Clinical Immunologist, he completed his under- and post-graduate studies, including the PhD, at University of Torino (Italy), worked for a period as territorial allergist and later on as Assistant Professor in Respiratory Diseases at University of Catania (Italy) and subsequently at Humanitas University (Milan, Italy). Since 2020 Prof. Heffler has been appointed as Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Humanitas University, and since 2021 also as Director of the Postgraduate School of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in the same university. More information about Prof. Heffler can be found at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0492-5663.

"It's really a great pleasure to serve as Editor-in-Chief of Exploration of Asthma & Allergy (EAA) as this newly created journal is set to become a benchmark in the field of allergy and asthma." Said Prof. Heffler. "The journal aims to host high quality articles in the various fields of allergology (respiratory, skin, anaphylaxis, drug and food allergy ...) with a particular focus on asthma. I strongly believe that the contribution of the allergological scientific community will be instrumental in increasing knowledge and implementing clinical practice, and a journal like this is a good point of collection for such evidence."

Enrico Heffler

Co Editor-in-Chief of Exploration of Asthma & Allergy

Exploration of Asthma & Allergy will be in extremely good hands with Prof. Giorgio Walter Canonica and Prof. Enrico Heffler, as well as with the full assistance from the editorial office at Open Exploration, we are dedicated to making the journal become an open and free platform that provides high quality research and comprehensive service to the scientific community.

Best wishes to Exploration of Asthma & Allergy and welcome to join us as readers, authors, reviewers and editors!