Erika Von Mutius MD

Erika von Mutius completed her internship and residency training in the Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatal, and Pediatric Intensive Care at the Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital at LMU Munich. After her residency, she spent a year as a research fellow at the University of Arizona, Respiratory Science Center, with Professor Fernando Martinez, where she caught fire for science.

She added a Master of Science Degree in Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health to her medical training. As a senior physician and professor of pediatric allergology and pneumology, Erika von Mutius heads the Department of Asthma and Allergy at the Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital and, since 2017, also the Institute of Asthma and Allergy Prevention at Helmholtz Munich.

Under Erika von Mutiu's leadership, numerous interdisciplinary, multicenter population-based studies have investigated the role of genetic and environmental risk and protective factors for childhood asthma and allergic diseases, both nationally and internationally. The most prominent studies are the so-called farm studies in which she and her team unravel the relevant exposures and underlying mechanisms conferring such strong protection from asthma and allergies.

Erika von Mutius is furthermore Member of the Board of Directors of the German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Director of the Munich site (CPC-M) of the DZL, and coordinator of the Disease Area Asthma & Allergy within DZL.