Award year: 2009
Category: Scholarship / Grant
Type: ERC Starting Grant
Awarding organization: Europäischer Forschungsrat (ERC)
As an immunologist, David Vöhringer researches immune factors that are responsible for the development of allergies. IgE antibodies that detect substances that are actually harmless and trigger an immune response as a result play a decisive role in this respect. David Vöhringer investigates these IgE antibodies, their lifespan and how they are formed. He received the ERC Grant at LMU Munich.