Awards
2003: Award of the "Stiftung Kanert für Allergieforschung des Stifterverbandes für die deutsche Wissenschaft", Davos, Schweiz: "Studies of cross-reactivity between natural rubber latex and food – determination of the sensitization profiles of patients with latex-fruit-syndrome"
1990: Award of the state North-Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) for young scientists; project: "Influence of environmental hazardous substances on the release of allergic and inflammatory mediators and the intracellular signal transduction."