HERA

Host-environment interactions in the protection from asthma and allergies

 Coordinatore LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN 

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 Nazionalità Coordinatore Germany [DE]
 Totale costo 2˙155˙697 €
 EC contributo 2˙155˙697 €
 Programma FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call ERC-2009-AdG
 Funding Scheme ERC-AG
 Anno di inizio 2010
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2010-05-01   -   2015-04-30

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN

 Organization address address: GESCHWISTER SCHOLL PLATZ 1
city: MUENCHEN
postcode: 80539

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Monika
Cognome: Bernhardt
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 89 2180 3449
Fax: +49 89 21802985

DE (MUENCHEN) hostInstitution 2˙155˙697.00
2    LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN

 Organization address address: GESCHWISTER SCHOLL PLATZ 1
city: MUENCHEN
postcode: 80539

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Erika
Cognome: Von Mutius
Email: send email
Telefono: 0049 89 5160 2709
Fax: 0049 89 5160 4452

DE (MUENCHEN) hostInstitution 2˙155˙697.00

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samples    farm    protect    microbes    environmental    protective    shown    genetic    immuno    allergies    hera    microbial    stimulatory    team    asthma    diseases    substances    compounds    isolated    exposures    children    allergy   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Asthma and allergies are chronic conditions affecting billions of Europeans. These complex diseases are determined by interplay of genetic and environmental factors. Treatments can control symptoms, but cannot cure or prevent the diseases. I, and my team, have shown that children are strongly protected from asthma and allergies when growing up in a farming environment rich in microbial exposures: the prevalence of asthma and hay fever is reduced over 5 fold. We have shown that environmental exposure to microbial compounds is inversely related to asthma and allergies. We have isolated microbes from animal sheds which protect mice from allergic airway inflammation. My team is now at a critical point to move this work forward to the next step, which is to systematically identify the microbes and their immuno-stimulatory compounds that protect from asthma and allergies. We have key resources in hand. In previous population based studies large numbers of environmental samples from farm and non farm children with and without asthma and allergies have been stored in biobanks. Genome wide genotyping data have also been gathered. The HERA project aims at applying the latest innovative high throughput sequencing techniques to comprehensively characterize the microbial ecology of these environmental samples. New methods for assessing microbial immuno-stimulatory substances will be used. These innovations will allow the HERA team to identify distinct asthma and allergy protective microbial exposures taking each individual s genetic susceptibility into account. Once protective microbial exposures have been identified, the responsible substances can be isolated. These substances can be developed into novel and effective prevention strategies to combat the asthma and allergy epidemic.'

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