My time at Harvard

Reflecting on suicide: lessons from my time at Harvard

More than a year ago I was sat in my room watching an American university professor demon strating a computerised test on a tablet to one of his interns. His name was Matthew Nock and he was a professor of psychology at Harvard University and a world expert on suicide research. The computerised test was and still is called the Suicide Implicit Association Test (S-IAT) and Professor Nock hoped h...

My time at the JBP

1. Laboratório do Sono, Departamento de Pneumologia, Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (SP) Brasil. Reflecting on the history of our Journal brings to mind the image of a long relay race with batons. I am extremely proud to be a part of this history. It all started when Professor Carlos Carvalho encouraged the residents to w...

My time at the JBP

403 It has been a few months since I completed my term as Editor-in-Chief of the Brazilian Journal of Pulmonology (BJP), and it is great to be able to write about those four years, especially as our Journal completes its 40th year in publication. In Brazil, being the editor of a scientific journal is an additional task to juggle, along with academic or health care activities. I remember the con...

Internship at Harvard University

Environmental interactions at Harvard.

Bioinformatics testing approaches for protein allergenicity, involving amino acid sequence comparisons, have evolved appreciably over the last several years to increased sophistication and performance. EVALLER, the web server presented in this article is based on our recently published ‘Detection based on Filtered Length-adjusted Allergen Peptides’ (DFLAP) algorithm, which affords in silico det...