Erika von Mutius

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Erika von Mutius (born 14 May 1957 in Bonn, Germany) is a German pediatrician and allergologist at the Helmholtz Center Munich and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. Her research interests include paediatrics, pediatric pneumology, allergology and epidemiology.

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Life

Her parents were Franz von Mutius and Hanna Elisabeth von Mutius, née Gazert. [1] Her mother came from a Partenkirchen-based medical family of North German origin. Her maternal grandfather was the German expedition physician and medical officer Hans Gazert; his father, Medical Council Ludolph Friedrich Gazert, originated from a Luneburger merchant family. [2]

Career

Erika von Mutius studied Medicine from 1976 to 1984 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. From 1984 to 1992 she was trained as a specialist in pediatrics at the Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich with all general pediatric wards, the neonatal intensive care unit, the pediatric intensive care unit and the pediatric surgical ambulance. In July 1992 she passed the pediatric exam.

She was senior physician at the Haunersches Children's Hospital and habilitated in 1998. Since 2000, she has been Head of the Allergy and Asthma Department of the hospital. In 2004 she was appointed Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Munich.

Since 2017, she has been the Director of the new Institute for Asthma and Allergy Prevention (IAP) at Helmholtz Center Munich. [3] [4]

Research

Erika von Mutius received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2013 for her basic insights into the causes of childhood lung diseases – in particular epidemiological studies on allergic asthma. [5]

She is one of the first allergy researchers who found out after the fall of the German wall in 1989/90 that in the GDR, despite the poorer environmental conditions caused by the air pollution, proportionately only half as many allergies existed as in the Federal Republic of Germany. [6] After the reunification, the same level in both parts of the country was reached within a few years. Erika von Mutius suspected that the children had more contact with other children through their daycare in kindergarten. She stated in comparative studies that despite higher air pollution in Leipzig compared to Munich, the risk of asthma in children was not higher. She also found that children who grow up in the countryside and who are in contact with animals have a lower risk of allergies.

Awards

Memberships

Editorships

Erika von Mutius is a member of the Editorial Board of the New England Journal of Medicine and editor of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and the European Respiratory Journal.

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References

  1. ↑ "Obituary for Franz von Mutius". sueddeutsche.de (in German). 2011-08-06. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  2. ↑ Universitätsbibliothek der TUHH (2012-05-27). "Vor 120 Jahren: Ludolph Gazert gestorben". tub.tuhh.de (Technische Universität Hamburg, Blog) (in German). Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  3. ↑ München, Helmholtz Zentrum. "press information / news – Helmholtz Zentrum München". www.helmholtz-muenchen.de.
  4. ↑ München, Helmholtz Zentrum. "Press Release – Helmholtz Zentrum München". www.helmholtz-muenchen.de. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  5. ↑ "DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Prof. Dr. Erika von Mutius. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preisträgerin 2013". dfg.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-12-08.
  6. ↑ Meyer, Katharina (2015-10-03). "In der DDR gab es nur halb so viel Allergien wie im Westen". badische-zeitung.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-12-08.
  7. ↑ "Preise und Medaillen. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Robert-Sauer-Preis – Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger". badw.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  8. ↑ "EAACI. Winners of the 2011 Medal Awards". eaaci.org. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
  9. ↑ "DFG, German Research Foundation - Prof. Dr. Erika von Mutius". www.dfg.de.
  10. ↑ "List of Members. Expert Search: Prof. Dr. Erika von Mutius". leopoldina.org. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
  11. ↑ "The Academy of Europe. Erika von Mutius". ae-info.org. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
  12. ↑ "ERS Vision: Unmet needs in respiratory medicine". ersnet.org. 2019-11-29. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
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