Erika von Mutius: reshaping the landscape of asthma research.

摘要

When Erika von Mutius tried to outsmart the funding authorities, she had no idea that when her plan backfired it would lead to "the big-break" in her medical career. "I had just spent 2 years running a study into the effect of air pollution on croup in children, but I'd had no experience of how to run a project and felt it had just all been a mess, so when my boss asked me to run another project I was desperate to avoid it. I therefore applied for an outrageously high sum of money so the authorities would reject me. To my complete surprise, however, they came up with the cash."