Erika von Mutius#
| Membership Number: | 4394 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.asthma-allergy.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2004 Professor of Pediatric Allergology, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
- Since 2000 Head of the Asthma and Allergy Department of the University Children’s Hospital Munich
- 1993 – 2000 Head of the Asthma and Allergy Department of the University Children’s Hospital Munich. Deputy Head of the Outpatient Clinic of the University Children’s Hospital Munich
- 1992 – 93 Research fellowship at the Respiratory Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, with F.D.Martinez
- 1984 – 92 Internship, Residency and Assistant in the Departments of General Pediatrics, Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care, University Children's Hospital Munich, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Paediatrics with special interest in childhood asthma and childhood allergies
- Environmental epidemiology and environmental determinants of diseases
- Microbiome
- Genetic epidemiology
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Balzan Prize - Pathophysiology of respiration: from basic sciences to the bedside
- 2015 Fellow of the European Respiratory Society (FERS)
- 2015 Annual Margaret Turner Warwick Respiratory Lecture
- 2014 Elected Member of the Leopoldina - German National Academy of Sciences
- 2013 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2013 Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation
- 2011 Daniel Bovet Award for Improving treatment and prevention of allergic diseases, European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
- 2010 Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Helsinki
- 2010 Advanced Investigators Grant of the European Research Council
- 2008 Medal of the University of Helsinki for distinguished guests
- 2008 “Profile: Erika von Mutius: reshaping the landscape of asthma research” Lancet
- 2008 European Medal from the State of Bavaria in recognition of excellence in research on the European level
- 2007 Jeffrey M. Drazen Visiting Professorship, Harvard Medical School
- 2007 Research award of the German Paediatric Society for Allergology and Environmental Medicine
- 2006 Jack Pepys Lecture at the Meeting of British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology
- 2004 Robert Sauer Award of the Bavarian Academy of Science
- Award of the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany, for the best „Habilitation“, the equivalent of a PhD thesis, at this university for the last 4 years, July 2000
- Recipient of the Elliot Ellis Lectureship at the 1999 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual Meeting
- 1996 Award of the European Respiratory Society for Paediatric Respiratory Research in Europe
