Clinical and Translational Allergy is a pioneering initiative to make high quality peer-reviewed research and reviews on allergy and related subjects available to clinicians, scientists, and the public in an open access format. Advances in allergy and immunology are being made in the clinic and in the laboratory at a rapid rate. CTA provides the platform for rapid dissemination of these findings to a wide audience to provide the greatest impact and benefit to society. CTA is an open access journal, enabling free access to all content ensuring a wide dissemination of articles; the electronic format and expert peer review allows for very rapid publication.