Institute of Environmental Medicine and Integrative Health
„Environment“ is everything that is not „us“. There are a lot of factors that determine whether what surrounds us, our habits and way of life makes us healthier and happier or makes us sick. At the InstiTUte of ENvironmental Medicine and IntEgrative Health (TUNE) we are looking for what makes us healthy and resilient, and what lets us stay that way. Prevention is our main goal.
We focus on basic research in the field of allergy, the microbiome of the skin and on easily accessible biomarkers, as indicators for example for allergies or sensitizations, or for the prediction of the severity of infections with Corona-Virus.
Outstanding scientists in the fields of Clinical Studies, Environmental Immunology, Human Exposure Science, Microbiology and Environmental Bioinformatics co-operate in our projects. We are working to improve methods of diagnosis, develop integrated and personalized strategies for prevention and therapy of chronic environmental diseases such as allergies or atopic eczema and improve people’s health within the perspective of Sustainable Health. The needs of the patients we see at the Outpatient Clinic of Environmental Health at Augsburg University Hospital are our guidance for developing our research questions and the answers we find immediately are integrated into the treatment of our patients.
We focus especially on the consequences of man-made pollution and climate change or changing environmental conditions on our health and on our options to strengthen resilience and adaptation. We work for healthy people in healthy environments.
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SZ-Beilage: Forschung als Frühwarnsystem
Another 4 years in the service of sustainable transformation
Prof Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann has been appointed to the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) for the second time in a row. This renewed appointment emphasises the great importance of environmental medicine in scientific policy advice. Over the next four years, Traidl-Hoffmann will work together with the other members of the WBGU to develop a sustainable environmental and health policy and formulate innovative recommendations for action.
[Environmental Medicine]Guest Professor Damialis from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) at the TUNE
During the summer of 2024, we had the honour to have Prof. Damialis as a Guest Professor at the Institute of Environmental Medicine and Integrative Health (TUNE) directed by Prof. Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann at the University of Augsburg.
[Environmental Medicine]Contact us
House address:
Institut für Umweltmedizin und Integrative Medizin (TUNE)
Medizinische Fakultät
Universität Augsburg
Stenglinstraße 2
86156 Augsburg
Postal address:
Neusässer Straße 47, 86156 Augsburg