Effects of Short- and Long-Term Exposure to E-Cigarette Vapour

DZL’s Balzan Prize supports a cross-disciplinary project investigating the effects of exposure to e-cigarette vapour. Preliminary results show that while e-cigarettes are sold as healthy substitutes of tobacco smoking, ingredients of the vapour contain substances with physiological influence.

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Erika von Mutius is a pediatrician and allergologist at the Helmholtz Center in Munich, and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. Klaus F. Rabe is Medical Director and Managing Director at Grosshansdorf Hospital and W3 Chair in Internal Medicine/Pulmonology at the University of Kiel. Werner Seeger is Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Neuheim. Tobias Welte (†2024) was Professor of Pulmonary Medicine and Head of the Department of Pulmonary and Infectious Disease at Hannover University School of Medicine.

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Balzan Prize - 2019