Allergy Consortium Wageningen

Allergy Prevention website Wageningen UR (in Dutch)

Expertise partners

ACW combines the entire spectrum of expertise that Wageningen UR has to offer, thus guaranteeing an integrated and client-oriented approach towards allergy prevention:

• Researchchair of Cell Biology and Immunology of Wageningen University ('Animal Sciences')
  Cellular immunology; human genome microarrays; cellular test systems; allergy and asthma; immunomodulation; education
• Plant Research International ('Plant Sciences')
  Expertise: Pre-harvest technologies; crop breeding; development genetic markers; genomics+; gene expression systems; food safety; food allergy; coeliac disease; allergic cross-reactivities; biodiversity; Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands
• Agrotechnology and Food Innovations (A&F) ('Agrotechnology and Food Sciences')
  Expertise: Post-harvest technologies; food processing; protein and peptide structure-activity relations; immuno assays; gene expression systems; food allergy; coeliac disease; food production chain management
• Research Institute for the Green Environment (ALTERRA) ('Environmental Sciences')
  Expertise: Aeroallergens; allergenicity of trees and weeds; biodiversity; geography of the green environment; advise to public authorities
• Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI) ('Social Sciences')
  Expertise: Consumer insight; food production chain management; databases; epidemiology; public information; advise to public authorities
• Rijks-Kwaliteitsinstituut voor Land- en Tuinbouwproducten (RIKILT) ('Agrotechnology and Food Sciences') Expertise: Food safety; quality control; immuno assays; cellular test systems, gene expression arrays; food allergy; coeliac disease
  
• Wageningen School of Advanced Studies (WSAS) Expertise: Post graduate education