Improved understanding of immunology has shown a great deal about the underlying mechanisms involved in allergen immunotherapy; however, despite these developments, a number of important questions remain unanswered.

Several of these questions related to the practice of allergen immunotherapy in the clinic have been discussed in a special paper entitled  “100 years of allergen immunotherapy European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology celebration: review of unanswered questions”.

This paper was born out of the results of the EAACI “SummIT on allergen immunotherapy”, that took place in February 2011 in Geneva, Switzerland. The SummIT was one of the main events that the Academy organised to celebrate the 100 anniversary of immunotherapy in Allergy during 2011.

“100 years of allergen immunotherapy European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology celebration: review of unanswered questions” will be published in Allergy and you can find now online at the “Early view” section of the journal.