Dr. Hye-Kyung Park is a professor of the Division of Pulmonology, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Pusan National University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea. She is the director of Regional Pharmacovigilance Center in Pusan National University Hospital. Her clinical and research interests are focused on 1) allergic inflammation and parasitic infection, 2) asthma and adipose-derived stromal cells, 3) asthma and air pollution and 4) drug hypersensitivity. She has served as a peer reviewer and a member of editorial board for AAIR for several years.

Hyeon-Jong Yang is a chief professor in the Department of Pediatrics, and director in the SCH data innovation center of Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital. He has served as a peer reviewer for AAIR for several years and joined as an associate editor in 2022.

The scientific interests of prof. Yang are epidemiology and data science, particular in study designing in the field of allergy and respiratory disease. Recently, His work focused on the real-world research using data-integration between cohort data and healthcare big-data. He is actively involved in the project (OMOP CDM funded by Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and Sentinel CDM funded by The Korea Institute of Drug Safety and Risk Management) and data-integration between childhood asthma cohorts and healthcare big data as a principal investigator.

Chang-Keun Kim is currently Director of the Asthma and Allergy Center at Inje University Sanggye Paik Hospital, Seoul, Korea. He is also Professor of Pediatrics at the same university.

He is a member of National Academy of Medicine of Korea. He is a member of several professional committees including International Fellow of American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (FAAAAI) (U.S.A.).

He has served a total of 5 years in USA including an Allergy Research Associate at the National Jewish Health, Denver, at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, and University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, USA.

He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles in English and Korean journals. His research interests include biomarkers, asthma, and eosinophils.

He has served as a Editorial Board member for AAIR since 2009. He mainly reviewed AAIR papers on biomarkers and asthma-related respiratory infections.

Dae Hyun Lim is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon. He has served as an editorial board for AAIR for several years.

His research interest is mainly focused on pediatric allergic diseases, including asthma, allergic rhinitis, and atopic dermatitis. In particular, his current research topics are as follows; i) Urine microbe-derived extracellular vesicles in children with asthma, ii) normal predicted reference values for spirometry in Korean children and adolescents, iii) effects of indoor air purifiers on children with asthma, iv) effects of particulate matter exposure on asthma-related hospital visits: national health insurance data.

As a researcher in the field of childhood asthma and allergic diseases, he tries to discover the environmental biomarkers of asthma development and exacerbation.

Hye Young Kim is a professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University College of Medicine. She has served as a peer reviewer for AAIR for several years and joined as an associate editor in 2021.

Her research interest is mainly focused on allergic diseases, including asthma, atopic dermatitis, and chronic rhinitis. In particular, her current research topics are as follows; i) structural cell and innate immune interactions, ii) identifying factors deciding heterogeneity of the allergic disease, iii) innate immune cell crosstalk in mucosal tissues.

As a researcher in the field of translational medicine, she tries to discover novel mechanisms by building animal models that reflect the pathophysiology of patients.

Mi-Ae Kim is an assistant professor of the Department of Pulmonology, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University in Seongnam, Korea.

Her major clinical research activities are asthma and airway dysfunction associated with occupation and environment. She has focused on the fields, eosinophilic lung disease accompanied by severe asthma, allergen specific immunotherapy, and airway remodeling. She has also participated in writing several clinical practice guidelines and consensus statements regarding asthma, allergic rhinitis, chronic cough, anaphylaxis, and chronic urticaria. She has published more than 50 international peer-reviewed articles and participated as a peer reviewer of the AAIR since 2016.

Yoo Seob Shin is an assistant professor of the Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea. He has joined as an associate editor of "Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Research" Journals since 2016, and has reviewed many manuscripts as a peer reviewer.

His clinical and research interests are focused on 1) animal model of allergic diseases, 2) allergic asthma and rhinitis, and 3) allergen specific immunotherapy. His research team set up several asthma models according to its endotypes, and evaluate potential candidate asthma drugs using drug repositioning method. He also has participated in clinical trials for several biologics and nation-wide asthma cohorts as a co-investigator. He will continue to support AAIR as an author and a reviewer.

Dr. Min-Suk Yang is an associate professor of Division of Allergy & Clinical Immunology of Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.

His current interests are focused on 1) the epidemiology of drug allergy, 2) novel immunotherapy and 3) new technology in allergy & asthma areas. He is working on a new method to identify drugs that causes drug allergy frequently in National claim database. He participated a clinical study on the intralymphatic immunotherapy as co-investigator. And he is now conducting a study on asthma using smartphone application and artificial intelligence.

He is also involved in relief system for adverse drug reactions and serves as an advisory committee member for Korea Institutes of Drug Safety & Risk Management on Adverse Drug Reaction Relief for several years.

He has authored about 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals including AAIR. He has served actively as a peer reviewer and a member of editorial board for AAIR for several years.

Dr. Dong In Suh is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University College of Medicine. He is a chief in the Division of Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Diseases at Seoul National University Children's Hospital.

His academic interest is mainly focused on pediatric asthma and the respiratory problems of pediatric rare lung diseases. He is also actively involved in the multicenter network studies on the Korean pediatric allergic diseases. In clinical practice, he is gathering data on the meaning of each pulmonary function parameter in various pediatric respiratory conditions.

He has participated as a peer reviewer and a member of editorial board of AAIR as well as the Allergy Asthma & Respiratory Disease.

Dr. Dong-Kyu Kim is an associate professor of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea. He completed his residency and clinical fellowship at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital.

His major is Rhinology in Otolaryngology field, which is a medicine dealing with nose and upper respiratory tract. As a researcher, his practice focuses on the nose and sinus diseases including allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis with/without nasal polyp. To date, he published several papers in high impact factor articles, such as Journal of American Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Journal of American Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, and Thorax. He is also interested in the field of artificial intelligence and a Vice Director of Center for Artificial Intelligence in Hallym University College of Medicine He is now performing the machine learning research about the prediction of outcome in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with/without nasal polyp.

He has served as the peer reviewer and the member of editorial board in the AAIR. He also has served as an author and editor of ‘Clinical Practice Guideline of the Allergic Rhinitis for the Clinicians’, published by the Korean Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology in 2015.

Dr. Dae Woo Kim is the associate professor of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. He has been serving as an editorial board member of AAIR since 2019 and also contributes to the AAIR as an author and a reviewer. In otorhinolaryngologic field, he has served as an Editor-in-Chief of Clinical and Experimental Otorhinolaryngology which is an international official journal of Korean Society of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Goals of his research are to phenotype and endotype chronic rhinosinusitis of Korean population and to determine customized therapeutic strategy in terms of the disease mechanisms. Especially, his works have focused on the innate mucosal immunity of chronic rhinosinusitis using nasal polyp animal models which was developed by his own research team. As an Asian doctor and researcher, he has a great interest in investigating the pathophysiology of refractory neutrophilic nasal polyps which was predominant in Asian countries. Additionally, this aberrant reaction of neutrophils in chronic inflammation may interact with allergic or eosinophilic inflammation, resulting in severe form of inflammation. Unraveling clues to these link is the most intriguing to him. His works have resulted in 83 peer reviewed publications including top journal such as JACI and Thorax.

Professor Yoon-Seok Chang, from the Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University, is currently working as the Head of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital since 2003. He has published more than 239 peer-reviewed papers (211 original, 28 review articles: h-index 41), 17 editorials, 16 books (chapter author), and 3 patents. His main research topics are asthma, allergic rhinitis, chronic cough, drug allergy, anaphylaxis, and community medicine.

He is also the Head of the Medical Research Collaboration Center of the hospital, and the Head of Gyeonggi-Do Atopy∙Asthma Education Information Center which is funded by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Korean Centers for Disease Control, and the Gyeonggi-Do Province government. He has been an active member of academic societies: Chair of the International Committee, the Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology, Chair of the International Committee, the Korean Society of Pharmacoepidemiology and Risk Management, Vice-chairman of the International Committee, the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors, Council member of the Korean Association of Immunologists, Secretary General of Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma, and Clinical Immunology (APAAACI), Board member of World Allergy Organization, and the Editor-in-Chief of Asia Pacific Allergy, the official journal of APAAACI. He has also been serving as the editorial board members of international journals such as AAIR, Allergy, Clinical Translational Allergy, Immune Network, and Clinical Nutritional Research.

Dr. Kyung Won Kim is an associate professor of Allergy, Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at Yonsei University College of Medicine. She is chief of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Severance Hospital.

In clinical practice, she has focused on the treatment of pediatric allergic diseases including asthma, atopic dermatitis and food allergy, and chronic lung diseases including bronchiolitis obliterans and orphan lung diseases. She has also served actively as a leader of aerodigestive team in Severance Children’s Hospital. With regards to research fields, she has focused on the fields, 1) the mechanism of allergic inflammation in allergic diseases such as asthma, atopic dermatitis, and food allergy using clinical data, 2) the genetics and epigenetics of allergic diseases using multi-omics approaches, and 3) the prediction for disease development and progress using artificial intelligence techniques. She has published more than 100 international peer-reviewed articles. She has served as a peer reviewer/associate editor of AAIR.

Dr. Jae-Hyun Lee is an associate professor of Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. He has charge of Regional Pharmacovigilance Center in Severance Hospital.

His basic research activity has focused on the investigation of pathophysiology of allergic inflammation and its novel biomarkers. Regarding clinical research, he focused on 1) impulse oscillometry and pulmonary function, 2) drug hypersensitivity, 3) pharmacovigilance.

He is an editorial board member of Allergy Asthma & Respiratory Disease and has joined as an editorial board member of AAIR since 2015.

Ioana Agache is Professor of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania and past President of the EAACI 2017-2019. She graduated with a medical degree from Carol Davila University, Bucharest and absolved Magna Cum Laude her PhD in Internal Medicine.

Her research in the field of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology focused on asthma phenotypes and endotypes, immune modulation and immune tolerance and integrated management of allergic diseases, with a special focus on primary care and community pharmacists. She is an active member of the Steering Committee and co-author of several international and European Guidelines, such as ARIA, EAACI Allergen immunotherapy guidelines and EAACI Food allergy.anaphylaxis guidelines, and actually chair of the EAACI guidelines on the use of biologics in asthma and allergic diseases.

She is Editor of the Global Atlas of Asthma (2013 and 2020), Global Atlas of Allergy (2014), Global Atlas of Allergic Rhinitis and Chronic Rhinosinusitis (2015), Implementing Precision Medicine in best practices of chronic airway diseases (2018), associate editor of Allergy and Clinical & Translational Allergy and an editor of JACI. She has joined in the Editorial Board of the AAIR since 2020, and publisehd notable reivews in the AAIR.

Dr. Jung-Won Park is professor of Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. He has been chief of the Allergy division of Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital since 2005. He has served as Editor in Chief of Yonsei Medical Journal since 2014, and Editorial board member of AAIR from the beginning of the journal. He also served as chairperson of Institute of Allergy, Yonsei university since 2013, and President of Korean Society of Pharmacoepidemiology and Risk Management since 2019. His research interests are characterization of respiratory and food allergens, obesity asthma, and development of allergen specific immunotherapy. For KAAACI, he served as secretary general and leader of allergen/immunotherapy working group of KAAACI. Currently he leads Immunology/Infection unit of Severance Hospital Research Center Project.

Dr. Man Yong Han is the professor of the Department of Pediatrics at CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University in Seongnam, Korea and has devoted as the Head of the Pediatric Allergy & Pulmonology Division at CHA Bundang Medical Center. In 2018-present, Dr. Han has been serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the Korean Journal of Pediatrics. He is also a member of the AAIR Editorial Board.
His major clinical research activities are pediatric asthma, in particular, pulmonary functions, and allergic rhinitis. He has particular interest in the investigation of the association between 1) environment and peripheral airway diseases using impulse oscillometry, 2) inflammatory biomarkers (i.e. periostin) and allergic diseases, 3) chronic inflammation and allergy in childhood, 4) epidemiology of allergic diseases in children), 5) endocrine disrupting chemicals and upper airway diseases using acoustic rhinometry, and 6) multiple outdoor environmental changes and asthma exacerbation. Recently, his research focuses on the effect of air pollution and environmental changes employing big data. Over the past 15 years, he has published over a hundred peer-reviewed original articles including a number of articles in AAIR. In 2015-2017, he has successfully completed the government-funded epidemiologic study (Sungnam Atopy Project).

Dr. Young Hyo Kim is an associate professor of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Inha University Hospital and INHA University School of Medicine, Incheon, Republic of Korea. He is a Vice Director of Inha Research Institute for Aerospace Medicine (IIAM), funded by National Research Foundation of Korea.
His main research fields are pathophysiology of allergic rhinitis, therapeutic candidate materials for anti-allergic medication, local allergic rhinitis, and nonspecific hyper-reactivity of the nasal cavity. He published an article ‘Anti-IL-33 antibody has a therapeutic effect in a murine model of allergic rhinitis’ in Allergy (the official journal of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology). He is also interested in the field of space medicine. He is now performing the research about the immunologic effect and mechanism of space stimuli (e.g., hyper- or microgravity) on the murine model of allergic asthma and rhinitis.
He has served as the peer reviewer and associate editor of the AAIR since 2019. He also has served as an author and editor of ‘Clinical Practice Guideline of the Allergic Rhinitis for the Clinicians’, published by the Korean Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology in 2015.

Professor Tae-Bum Kim is Head of the Department of Allergy & Clinical Immunology at Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine in Seoul, Korea. He is also the director of Pharmacovigilance Center and Asthma/COPD Center of the same hospital. Currently, he is leading a nation-wide adult asthma cohort, COREA, and Human Microbiome Research Team at Asan Biomedical Research Center.
In clinical science, he has been recognized as an asthma and drug allergy specialist in Korea and devoted as regional principal investigators in clinical trials and outcome research for asthma and chronic urticaria. Regarding translational research activities, he has concentrated on four fields, 1) Studies on clinical phenotypes and endotypes of asthma using multi-omics approaches, 2) Establishment of management algorithms in drug allergy including radiocontrastmedia induced hypersensitivity, 3) Identification of novel biomarkers in asthma and drug allergy using various human samples, and 4) Epidemiological studies using National Health Insurance Database. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, and is working as co-PI of several international asthma collaborative researches.
He has served on the editorial boards of CHEST and AAIR. He has joined as an associated editor/reviewer of the AAIR since 2016.

Dr. Donald Y.M. Leung is a professor of Pediatrics at National Jewish Health and University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine. He was an associate professor at Harvard Medical School in Pediatrics (1987). Since 1989, Dr. Leung has been Head of Pediatric Allergy-Immunology at National Jewish Health. Between 1998-2015, he was Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. He is the current Executive Editor of The Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. Dr. Leung is the author of more than 600 publications, has a H-index of 111 and has been the recipient of more than 35 NIH grants and 20 patents. In 2002, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) named him to their list of World’s Most Highly Cited Authors in Immunology; In 2004-present, he was appointed Principal Investigator of the NIH/NIAID Atopic Dermatitis Research Network to study mechanisms underlying bacterial and viral infections in atopic dermatitis. In 2012, he was awarded the AAAAI Distinguished Service Award for his contributions as Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, in 2018, he received the AAAAI Distinguished Scientist Award for his work in Atopic Dermatitis. Recently, his up-to-date review articles regarding atopic dermatitis have been published in AAIR. He will continue to support AAIR as an author and a reviewer.

Dr. Luo Zhang is Chang Jiang scholars program professor of Capital Medical University (Beijing), China. He is executive president of Beijing TongRen hospital.

Over the last decade his work has focused on the pathophysiology of chronic rhinosinusitis; the regulation of airway ciliary activity; mechanisms of specific-allergen immunotherapy of allergic rhinitis; and surgical techniques of endoscopic sinus surgery. His work has resulted in 166 peer reviewed publications and has been awarded with several prizes in China, including the National Outstanding Scientist Prize (2010, nominated prize of top 10), the Eleventh China Youth Science and Technology Prize (2009) and National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.

He is past president of the Chinese Allergy Society (CAS). He is also a director member of World Allergy Organization, a member of Collegium Internationale Allergologicum and a member of Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum (CORLAS). He takes part in the editorial boards of Allergy (Associate Editor), International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology (Associate Editor) and Laryngoscope. In addition, he contribute to the AAIR as authors and reviewers.

Dr. Cheol-Woo Kim is a professor of the Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Inha University Hospital and Inha University School of Medicine, Incheon, Korea. He is the director of the Inha University Hospital Regional Pharmacovigilance Center.

His research has focused on the mechanism of drug hypersensitivity, occupational lung diseases, and the effect of air pollution on chronic airway diseases. He also has many years of research experiences for pharmacokinetics and drug responses, and devoted to develop therapeutic drug monitoring system for several clinically important drugs. His laboratory has recently focused on the development of new methods to predict treatment response of severe asthma and chronic urticaria.

He has served as the reviewer and editorial board member of the AAIR since 2010. He is a director of Publication Committee in the Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology (KAAACI), and has joined as an associate editor of "Allergy Asthma & Respiratory Disease" and the AAIR since 2015.

Dr. Young-Il Koh is a professor working at Division of Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology of Department of Internal Medicine in Chonnam National University Medical School & Hospital. He has managed Regional Pharmacovigilance Center in Chonnam National University Hospital since 2009. He has joined on editorial board of AAIR since 2012 and also has served as a peer reviewer.

His recent research activities are mainly focused on new therapeutic modalities for the managements of asthma and allergic diseases, by modifying immunologic profiles. He published the therapeutic effect of flagellin on asthma in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in 2016. He is also interested in the fields of allergen immunotherapy and biologics in terms of the treatment of allergic diseases. Thus, he has participated into clinical trials for several biologics in severe asthma as a co-investigator. Finally, he has pursued to do clinical researches on drug allergies, including DRESS syndrome.

Jeong-Hee Choi is a professor of the Division of Pulmonology, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine. She is the director of Regional Pharmacovigilance Center in Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, Hwaseong, Korea.

Her clinical and research interests are focused on 1) chronic urticaria, 2) allergic rhinitis, and 3) drug hypersensitivity. Her laboratory works have been focused on discovery of biomarkers of chronic urticaria and severe asthma using proteomic methods and its functional studies using primary cultured human mast cells and human mast cell lines. She has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles on allergy, asthma and clinical immunology. She has joined as an associate editor/reviewer of the AAIR since 2015.

Young-Min Ye is an associate professor of Allergy & Clinical Immunology at Ajou University School of Medicine. She is the director of regional pharmacovigilance center in Ajou University Hospital, Suwon, Korea.

Regarding clinical and research activities, she has focused on 1) the pathogenesis and prognosis of chronic urticaria, 2) anaphylaxis, 3) drug hypersensitivity, 4) real-world effectiveness study on allergic diseases. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles on allergy, asthma and clinical immunology. She has joined as an associate editor/reviewer of the AAIR since 2015.

Dr. Sang-Heon Kim is a Professor of the Division of Pulmonary Medicine and Allergy, Hanyang University Hospital and Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. He is the Chief of the Hanyang University Hospital Regional Pharmacovigilance Center and the Director of the Medical Information Center, Hanyang University College of Medicine.

His research has focused on the genetic backgrounds of drug hypersensitivity and the pharmacoepidemiology of adverse drug reactions. His laboratory also focuses on the immunologic mechanisms of asthma and environmental lung diseases. Dr. Kim’s research has recently focused on the management of severe refractory asthma and chronic cough. He has served on the editorial boards of the AAIR, the Korean Journal of Internal Medicine (KJIM) and the Korean Journal of Medicine (KJM).

Dr. Woo-Jung Song is an allergist physician-scientist in the department of internal medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine.

His current interests are focused on 1) cough hypersensitivity and 2) adult-onset asthma. He is seeking for novel diagnostic and therapeutic tools for cough hypersensitivity syndrome or chronic cough. He has also investigated the epidemiology and pathophysiology of adult-onset severe asthma, recently in relation to staphylococcal superantigens.

He is also much interested in evidence-based medicine in the fields of allergy, asthma and cough. He has been a main contributor to national clinical practice guidelines for asthma, chronic cough and chronic urticaria in Korea, and international guideline for chronic cough. He has authored about 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals including AAIR.

He has served actively as a peer reviewer for AAIR for several years and joined as an associate editor since 2018.

Professor Hyun-Woo Shin is a physician-scientist who working in the Department of Pharmacology at Seoul National University College of Medicine and the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head-and-Neck Surgery at Seoul National University Hospital. He is the director of Obstructive Upper airway Research Laboratory (OUaR Lab) at Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. He has joined as an associated editor of the "Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Research (AAIR)” journal since 2016.

His research interests focus on the pathophysiology of obstructive upper airway diseases including chronic rhinosinusitis, nasal polyps and obstructive sleep apnea. He endeavors to discover novel diagnostic biomarkers reflecting the hypoxic exposure, to clarify the immunological and biochemical mechanisms of upper airway remodeling and to identify the underlying key environments related to it through the diverse collaborations. He has published numerous outstanding articles in top-ranked journals including as a leading author and has intellectual properties on the innovative diagnostic and therapeutic technologies in obstructive airway diseases.

Professor An-Soo Jang is a professor in the Department of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine at Soonchunhyang University School of Medicine.

He is an editorial board member of "Allergy Asthma & Respiratory Disease" and “Journal of Rhinology” and has joined as an associate editor of "Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Research" Journals since 2015.

His research focuses on the effect of air pollutants such as particulate matter, ozone, and acrolein on asthma and allergic diseases, and the role of pulmonary endothelium and epithelium for asthma and obstructive lung diseases.

In particular, current studies include role of : a) epithelial and endothelial cell barriers in exacerbation of asthma and obstructive lung diseases; b) neurogenic mechanism in chronic and irritant induced cough; and c) angiogenetic factors in asthma pathogenesis. In collaboration with other investigators, enabling technologies to pursue these efforts include fluorescence based imaging, transcriptomics, proteomicsand transgenic/gene-targeted murine systems. Hislong term goal is to better understandthe genetic basis of increased susceaptibility to pulmonary epithelial and endothelial injury and repair. He has served as the reviewer and the member of editorial boards of AAIR since 2009.

Professor Ji-Hun Mo is a ENT doctor majoring in nose disease in Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Dankook University College of Medicine.

He completed his residency and clinical fellowship at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital in 2005 and studied allergy immunology as a research fellow at University of California San Diego from 2005 to 2008.

He is an editorial board member of "Allergy Asthma & Respiratory Disease" and “Journal of Rhinology” and has joined as an associate editor of "Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Research" Journals since 2015.

His practice focuses on the nose diseases including allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis with/without nasal polyp. His main research interest is to reveal the pathomechanism and treatment of allergic diseases including allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis using animal model and human samples. His current research projects are 1) mesenchymal stem cell treatment in allergic rhinitis and 2) Wnt and regulatory T cell involvement in chronic rhinosinusitis. He has published 50 basic and clinical articles on mechanism and treatment of allergic rhinitis, and rhinosinusitis. He is also a vice director of Laser Translational Clinical Trial Center of Dankook University Hospital, Cheonan, Korea.

Dr. Dong-Young Kim is a Professor of Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Seoul National University College of Medicine. His major is Rhinology in Otolaryngology field, which is a medicine dealing with nose and upper respiratory tract. As a clinician, he has been treating diseases in the nose and paranasal sinuses such as allergic rhinitis, chronic rhinosinusitis, nasal deformity, tumors, and so on. As a researcher, his interest is focusing on airway mucosal immunology, especially on allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyp. He has been working to elucidate the pathogenetic mechanisms and to find out new treatment modalities for allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis. He published more than 100 papers in international refereed journals on these researches, which have been cited more than 200 times. The new discovery of “Respiratory M cell” is more significant, which was reported by news two times. He was given a “Best Scholarship of the Year” Award from The Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology in 2011.

He has served on the Editorial Board of AAIR since 2009.

Dr. Kyoung Yong Jeong is a research professor of Institute of Allergy at Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Dr. Jeong has studied allergens for longer than 17 years working at Yonsei University, and established himself as an internationally recognized scientist in the field of allergen characterization and standardization.

His research activities have been focused on allergens, especially 1) identification and biochemical characterization of allergens, 2) production and application of recombinant allergens and monoclonal antibodies, 3) standardization of allergen extracts. He is also interested in various arthropods of medical importance. He has published more than 60 international peer-reviewed articles on allergens.

He has served as reviewer of AAIR since 2011 and the editorial board member since 2015. He also dedicated as a guest editor of the international journals such as Protein Pept Lett.

Professor Myunghyun Sohn is Section Chief of Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Medicine, and the Director of the Department of Pediatrics at the Yonsei University College of Medicine. He is the Clinical Director of the Severance Children Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

His clinical practice focuses on the treatment of pediatric allergy and respiratory disease, including asthma, allergic rhinitis, atopic dermatitis, bronchiolitis, and pneumonia.

He is principal investigator of clinical and translational studies on several fields, 1) the mechanism of allergic inflammation in allergic diseases such as asthma, atopic dermatitis, and food allergy using clinical data and mouse models, 2) the genetics of asthma and atopic dermatitis, 3) the pathogenesis of acute lung injury and lung fibrosis. He has served on the editorial boards of Yonsei Medical Journal and AAIR.

Professor Sooyoung Lee is the corresponding expert on the Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Disease at the Department of Pediatrics, Ajou University School of Medicine. She is also the president of the Suwon Center for Environmental Diseases and Atopy.

In clinical science, she has been recognized as a top ranked food allergy specialist in Korea and devoted as national and regional principal investigators in the fields of food allergy and anaphylaxis. She is the principal investigator for the nation-wide prospective registry project of anaphylaxis in Korea which is funded by Korean CDC. Regarding translational research activities, she has concentrated on food allergen handling, identification and modification of major food allergenic components, and the development of immunotherapy modalities for food allergic children. She has published more than 130 peer-reviewed articles, is working as an author of major textbooks (Korean), and has been invited to lecture in major international academic congresses.

She has served on the reviewer of several international journals, and she has joined as an associated editor/reviewer of the AAIR from 2012 to today with love and passion.

Professor Inseon S. Choi is the Head of the Department of Allergy at Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea. He is a former president of the Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology and he has served as an associate editor/reviewer of the AAIR since 2009.

He is an allergy specialist and published several books including allergy textbooks for medical students and an educational book for asthma patients (‘Conquering Asthma’). He devoted many times as a regional principal investigator in global clinical trials for asthma. His translational research activity has been focused on an intervention at the level of the pathogenic immune responses of asthma using BCG and/or dehydroepiandrosterone. His clinical works on BCG have been cited more than 200 times by the international investigators and he is the author of the chapter on asthma and dehydroepiandrosterone in a notable book published in New York. In addition, he has published many articles on various fields of asthma including aspirin hypersensitvity, drug allergy, asthma mortality, airway hyperresponsiveness, and induced-sputum study. He has also served many times as an invited speaker principally on asthma treatment, such as inhaled steroid therapy and severe asthma treatment.

Seung-Hyun Kim is an associate professor of research in Translational Research Laboratory for Inflammatory Disease, Clinical Trial Centre at Ajou University Medical Center, Suwon, South Korea.

Dr Kim has already established herself as an internationally recognized researcher in the field of aspirin hypersensitivity and drug allergy. Notably, she has extensive laboratory and theoretical expertise in the study of the genetic basis of immunological drug reactions.

Her major research activities are 1) identification of genetic risk factor of drug hypersensitivity, 2) investigation of the cellular mechanisms of hypersensitivity reactions to drugs, 3) definition of the mechanism by which drugs interact with immune cells, 4) identification of drug targets and biomarker-based translational clinical research, and 5) evaluation of early diagnostic tool and novel therapeutic strategy for the treatment of allergic disease. She has published over 110 peer-reviewed articles in international recognized journals and 2 book chapters in her research field. Her original articles have also been cited 2601 times. Please refer to my Google Scholar profile for up-to-date citation counts.

She has awarded for achievements in research and academia, including, the Korean Allergy Society Best paper award in 2015, the Korean Pharmacogenomics Research Center for Drug Adverse Reaction Best paper award in 2005 & Marie-Curie International Incoming Fellowship, competitive fellowship, Research Executive Agency, EU in 2012. She participated as an organizing committee member, the 5th Drug hypersensitivity Meeting in 2012.

She has served as the reviewer and editorial board member of AAIR since 2009.

Professor Young Yoo is Director of the Department of Pediatrics at Korea University Anam Hospital. She is the director for Allergy and Immunology Center of Korea University and vice-director of Environmental Health Center of Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

She has many years of clinical and research experiences including, 1) environmental risks of childhood allergic diseases, 2) GIS analysis for childhood allergic diseases, 3) dysbiosis of gut microbiome in atopic dermatitis, 4) microRNA as a biomarker of atopic dermatitis. She also devoted to develop many education programs for allergic patients.

She has served as the reviewer and editorial board member of AAIR since 2014. She has been served as chair of Work Group for allergic rhinitis the Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology since 2015 and director of Academic Affairs of the Korean Academy of Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Disease since 2015.

Professor Jinho Yu is a pediatric allergist/pulmonologist in the Department of Pediatrics, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine. He completed residency and clinical fellowship at the Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Hospital in 2005 after graduating from College of Medicine, Seoul National University in 1995. He is a director of editorial board in Korean Academy of Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Disease (KAPARD), and has joined as an associate editor of "Allergy Asthma & Respiratory Disease" and "Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Research"Journals since 2015.

Professor Yu's practice focuses on the pediatric respiratory disease as well as allergic disease, especially chronic lung disease including bronchiolitis obliterans and orphan lung disease during childhood. Other clinical interests include bronchoscopy and lung transplantation in children. His research is now focusing on the role of innate lymphoid cells in a murine model of atopic dermatitis, and stem cell therapy in allergic disease. Other research interests include cluster analysis of childhood asthma and clinical trials about allergic march. He has published 67 scientific articles on allergy development, asthma pathogenesis, and the mechanism of allergic march.

Jeong-Hee Kim is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Inha University and the Vice Director of Environmental Health Center for Allergic Rhinitis, Inha University Hospital, Incheon, Korea.

She has been a member of The Korean Academy of Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Disease (KAPARD) and The Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology (KAAACI) since 2005 and the Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine since 2009. Regarding her research activities, she has been focused on environmental risk factors in development and/or aggravation of allergic diseases.

She has served as a reviewer and editorial board member for several Korean and international journals including AAIR since 1999 and joined as an editorial board member of the AAIR.

Professor Dong-Ho Nahm is Head of the Department of Allergy & Clinical Immunology at Ajou University School of Medicine.

As an allergy and clinical immunology specialist, his past and current research topics were an evaluation of autoimmune mechanism in nonallergic asthma and a development of new immunomodulatory therapy for severe refractory atopic dermatitis. He had clinical experiences as and colleagues (1) identified a cytokeratin 18 protein as an airway epithelial autoantigen associated with nonallergic asthma in 2002, (2) identified an alpha-enolase protein as an autoantigen associated with severe asthma in 2006, (3) developed a modified immunotherapy for severe refractory atopic dermatitis with a combination of allergen-specific immunotherapy and histamine-immunoglobulin complex in 2008, and (4) developed a new immunomodulatory therapy for severe atopic dermatitis with repeated intramuscular injections of autologous imunoglobulin (autologous imunoglobulin therapy) in 2014.

Professor Bok Yang Pyun is Head of Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Center in the department of Pediatrics at Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

As a pediatrician, Prof. Pyun in one of the experts of pediatric allergy in Korea especially in the field of atopic dermatitis and food allergy. She has served as a President of Korean Academy of Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Diseases(KAPARD) and board members of Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology(KAAACI) for more than 25 years. Recently, she is interested in two fields, 1) pathophysiology of atopic dermatitis especially on microbiome and its roles and clinical applications, 2) characteristics of food allergy in Korean children. She published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and more than 20 books regarding pediatric allergy. She is a member of World Allergy Organization (WAO) Special committee on Atopic Dermatitis.

Prof. Pyun is currently serving as a advisory board member of AAIR since 2011.

Byoung Whui Choi, MD, PhD is a leading professor of the Division of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine at Chung-Ang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea. He is the Director of Chung-Ang University Drug Monitoring Center of Korean Institute of Drug Safety and Risk Management, which was established by the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug safety. He has served as a member of Steering Committee and Scientific Program Committee of the XXIII World Allergy Congress, 2015

He is one of pioneers in Allergy and Clinical Immunology field in Korea, as he first joined in the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology of Seoul National University Hospital in 1980. From 1991 to 1992, he had worked a visiting Professor at the Asthma Research Group, Medical Center, McMaster University. His major clinical and research activities are asthma and allergy, especially, 1) the pathophysiology and management of asthma, 2) genetics of asthma and sub-phenotypes. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles on asthma, COPD and allergic diseases.

He has devoted his every efforts on the Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology (KAAACI) and had worked as the President of the KAAACI between 2011 and 2013. He has dedicated as an associate editor/ an advisory board member of the AAIR since 2011.

Yoon-Keun Kim, MD, PhD is a physician scientist. He received his MD from Seoul National University in 1987 and received his PhD in 1997.

From 2002 to 2003, he was a visiting Assistant Professor at the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at Yale University, USA. Moving his position to the Department of Life Science at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea, he has extended his interests to the pathophysiology of immune-based inflammatory diseases and translational research covering cutaneous, gastrointestinal, and cardiovascular diseases in addition to the respiratory diseases. In addition, he is a leader of convergence of industry, academy, and research as well as convergence of basic and clinical research. Since 2014, he took the Principal of Ewha Institute of Convergence Medicine and professor of Ewha Womans University Medical Center. He will lead the future of convergence of diverse fields of research and industry.

Professor Jae-Won Oh is Head at the Division of Allergy & Clinical Immunology and director at Department of Pediatrics, Hanyang University Guri Hospital, School of Medicine, Guri, Korea.

Professor Oh has a distinguished career as a great clinician and teacher and serves as Professor at the Department of Pediatrics, Hanyang University School of Medicine. Professor Oh has been an invaluable asset to his society of Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology (KAAACI), Korean Academy of Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Diseases (KAPARD) as well as to the rest of the global allergy society. His contribution to allergy and clinical immunology, especially in the field of pollen allergy and climate change, is well recognized both in Korea and around the world. He also is chair of Aerobiology committee of Asian Pacific Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and a board of Climate change committee of World Allergy Organization since 2012.

He has served on the editorial boards of several journals including Allergology International and AAIR, etc. He has been an active member of many international academic societies, such as American Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology (Fellow of AAAAI), European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (member of EAACI) since 1995.

Professor Young-Koo Jee is the Vice Dean at Dankook University College of Medicine and Head of the Division of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine at Dankook University Hospital, Cheonan, Korea.

He has conducted clinical and basic research regarding 1) the genetics and pharmacogenomics of adverse drug reaction, 2) the pathogenic mechanisms and clinical research of chronic airway obstructive disease, 3) pathogenic role of bacteria-derived extracellular vesicles. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed SCI(E) articles.

He has served on the editorial boards/reviewer of several international journals including AAIR, J Korean Med Sci and Exp Mol Med. He has also served as Chair of Publication Committee of Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology. He has joined as an associate editor of the AAIR since 2012.

Professor Kangmo Ahn is a pediatric allergist in the Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. He is the Director of Environmental Health Center for Atopic diseases, which was established by the Korean Ministry of Environment to find the relationship of atopic diseases with exposure to outdoor/indoor pollution and to explore ways to reduce children's health risks from environmental factors.

He has had clinical experiences as an allergy specialist for longer than 15 years working at Allergy Center in Samsung Medical Center. He has devoted his best efforts to academic activities of the Korean Academy of Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Disease (KAPARD) and of the Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology (KAAACI). His research activities have been focused on allergy and clinical immunology, especially 1) the role of pollution in the pathophysiology of atopic dermatitis, 2) the effect of probiotics on the prevention and treatment of allergic diseases, 3) the development and management of food allergy and 4) the genetics for the diagnosis of immunodeficiency diseases. He first identified pistachio allergens, Pis v 1 and Pis v 2. He also found novel mutations in hyper-IgE syndrome and chronic granulomatous disease. He has been involved in the nationwide epidemiologic study using ISAAC (International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood) questionnaire since 1995. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed articles.

He was a member of World Allergy Organization (WAO) Special Committee on Food Allergy and Nutrition. He has served as a managing editor of Asia Pacific Allergy, the official journal of Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology (APAAACI) and dedicated himself as an associate editor of AAIR since 2011.

Professor Heung-Woo Park is a professor of the Division of Allergy & Clinical Immunology at Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. He was educated at Seoul National University College of Medicine and got his PhD degree at the same university in 2006.

He gained clinical and research experiences at the Seoul National University Hospital. He had a chance to spend one and half year (2012/8-2014/2) as a visiting scholar at the Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, US. His major research activities are 1) genomics and pharmacogenomics of asthma, 2) the pathogenesis of innate immune-mediated asthma, and 3) characterization of elderly asthma. He has published about 60 peer-reviewed articles on asthma pathogenesis, phamacogenomics, and innate immune response.

Professor Woo Kyung Kim is Department of Pediatrics at Seoul Paik Hospital, Inje University School of Medicine. He is the director for Allergy Respiratory Research Laboratory in Seoul Paik Hospital Inje University, Seoul, Korea.

Dr. Kim's research interests are in clinical and population epidemiology, and focus on the causes and prevention of allergic disease among childhood. He has had substantial experience in the conduct of both observational cohort studies of children and clinical trials, including preventive interventions related to asthma, atopic dermatitis, allergic rhinitis, and child respiratory health. His main study is focus on the association between virus and asthma. He published a review article of "Updated of rhniovirus and asthma" at AAIR. He has been a co-investigator and collaborator in studies of the causes and prevention of allergic illness in childhood for several years.

He has served on the editorial boards of Pediatric Allergy Respiratory Disease (Korea) and Korea Journal of Asthma Allergy Clinical Immunology for several years. From that experience he joined the AAIR Task force team in 2008. After AAIR launched, he joined as an editor/reviewer of the AAIR since 2009 and dedicated to promote this journal to international scale. From 2013, he has become "Managing Editor of the AAIR".

Dr. Kim has no conflict of interests or competing interests related to her role as a research scientist or as an Editor of AAIR.

Professor You Sook Cho is Head of the Department of Allergy & Clinical Immunology and the director of Asthma Center at Asan Medical Center, Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

As a clinician, she is one of the experts of allergy and asthma field in Korea. Her research activities have been focused on asthma and chronic cough. Recently, her main interest is severe asthma and its pathogenesis related with oxidative stress and airway remodeling in particular. She has conducted several translational research projects and published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles.

She was a key member of task force team for publishing the first AAIR and then, she has joined as a managing editor ever since the AAIR just newly launched in 2009. She also devoted to promote the AAIR to international scale journal in Allergy and Asthma field. She has now been working with the second chief editor of the AAIR since Jan 2014.

Professor Hae-Sim Park is Head of the Department of Allergy & Clinical Immunology at Ajou University School of Medicine. She is the director for research activity in Ajou Medical Center and Director of Clinical Trial Center of Ajou University Hospital, Suwon, Korea.

In clinical science, she has been recognized as a top ranked allergy specialist in Korea and devoted as national and regional principal investigators in early global trials and outcome research for asthma and allergy. Regarding translational research activities, she has concentrated on three fields, 1) the genetics and pharmacogenetics of asthma and NSAID hypersensitvity, 2) the pathogenic mechanisms of occupational asthma and rhinitis, 3) Identification of new allergens and development of immunotherapy. She has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles, is working as a leading author of major textbooks and has been invited numerous times to lecture before major international academic meetings.

She has served on the editorial boards of several first class journals including Clinical Experimental Allergy. Allergy and AAIR. She has joined as an associated editor/reviewer of the AAIR since 2009 and dedicated to promote this journal to international scale. Since Jan 2014, she has become "Editor in Chief of the AAIR".

Professor Yang-Gi Min has a distinguished career as a great doctor and teacher and serves as Emeritus Professor at the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Seoul National University School of Medicine. Professor Min has been an invaluable asset to our department as well as to the rest of the global health community. His contribution to otolaryngology, especially in the field of rhinology, is well recognized both in Korea and around the world. He was the pioneer of endoscopic sinus surgery in Korea and he was the first to organize an international workshop with a hands-on dissection course on endoscopic sinus surgery, which celebrates its twenty-second birthday this year.

Professor Min has helped to further our understanding of the nose and sinuses through more than 530 publications in international and domestic journals involving clinical and basic research. Being a great teacher with endless enthusiasm, his knowledge has been disseminated to the next generation of otolaryngologists throughout Korea and abroad.

He has been an active member of many international academic societies, such as the Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum, International Rhinologic Society, and American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. He founded the Korean Rhinologic Society in 1990 and the Asian Research Symposium in Rhinology in 1997. He had worked as President of the Korean Society of Allergology between 2000 and 2004. He has contributed to the AAIR and 5 international journals in the field of otorhinolaryngology since 2003.

Dr. Choon-Sik Park is the founding editor of the Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Research (AAIR). He has served as the first Editor-in-Chief of the AAIR from 2009 to 2013. AAIR was picked up by major international databases as soon as the first issue was published in October 2009--PubMed and PubMed Central in May 2010, and SCIE in June 2011. The inclusion of AAIR in SCIE was the first journal on allergy and asthma published in the Asia Pacific region. Even though he resigned from the Editor-in-Chief position, he remains in the AAIR editorial board as an associate editor.

He is a professor of the Division of Allergy & Respiratory Medicine at Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital and the director for Genome Research Center for Allergy and Respiratory Diseases, Bucheon, Korea.

His major research activities are 1) genetics of asthma and sub-phenotypes, 2) the pathogenesis of innate immune-mediated asthma and 3) discovery of biomarkers related with chronic airway diseases. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles on chronic airway diseases including asthma, aspirin exacerbated respiratory diseases, eosinophilia - related lung diseases and COPD.