Gerrit Bredeck was awarded the Rudolf Buchheim Prize of the German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (DGPT) for his work on the health effects of Saharan dust. He conducted his research as doctoral student in the working group of Dr. Roel Schins at the IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine and is doing his doctorate at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. The prize was presented at the annual meeting of the DGPT on March 14, 2024 in Munich.