| Partners |
Role in the project |
Partner Organisation |
Dr Montserrat Fernandez-Rivas
E-mail |
Co-leader of Theme 1 and leader of WP2.1 |
Fundacion Hospital Alorcon (FHA), Spain
The FHA is a secondary care sanitary centre which incorporates the utmost advanced medical technologies. The Allergy Unit of the FHA provides allergological assistance to the South-West area of Madrid. |
Dr Maria Yazdanbakhsh
E-mail |
Leader of WP2.2 |
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), The Netherlands
The Helminth Cellular Immunology Research group is based within the Department of Parasitology at LUMC. The group's expertise is at the interface between epidemiology and immunology. |
Dr Gene Rowe
E-mail |
Leader of WP2.3 |
Institute of Food Research (IFR), UK
IFR is situated within the Norwich Research Park; together with the University of East Anglia and the John Innes Centre for Plant Science Research. IFR provides the leading national resource for basic and strategic research in Food Safety, Food Quality and Nutrition. |
Dr Jean-Michel Wal
E-mail |
Co-leader of Theme 3 |
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA-CRJ), France
INRA Laboratory on Food Allergy has a long involvement in the study of protein biochemistry and technology and in the development of specific and sensitive immunoassays of proteins and peptides. The relationship between the structure of food proteins and peptides and their immunoreactivity, are major research projects at the laboratory. |
Dr Karin Hoffman-Sommergruber
E-mail |
Leader of WP3.1 |
Medical University of Vienna, Austria
The Department of Pathophysiology has been working in the field of experimental allergology for the past ten years. Particular emphasis has been put on the application of identification and characterisation of pollen and pollen-related food allergens |
Prof Stefan Veiths
E-mail |
Leader of WP3.2 |
Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI), Germany
PEI is the German Federal Agency responsible for marketing authorisation and batch control of biological drugs. The Division of Allergology has long been performing food allergen research and has produced more than 30 recombinant food allergens. |
Dr Harry Wichers
E-mail |
Leader of WP5.4 |
Agrotechnology and Food Innovations (A&F), The Netherlands
A&F is an organisation for strategic and applied-scientific research for agriculture and horticulture, trade and export and for the industries manufacturing food and non-food products on the basis of agro-raw material. |
Prof Miranda Mugford
E-mail |
Co-leader of Theme 4 and leader of WP4.3 |
University of East Anglia (UEA), UK
UEA is situated within the Norwich Research Park; together with the Institute of Food Research and the John Innes Centre for Plant Science Research. The school of medicine's research themes are: Chronic Illness; Evidence Based Practice; Psychological Health; Risk and Decision Making |
Dr Sylvia Pfaff
E-mail |
Leader of WP4.1 |
Food Information Service, Germany
FIS (Food information service) Europe delivers all desired data and facts from the European food economy and legal demands. Expertise is made on food retail trade, organic food and food allergies. FIS Europe is involved in different European research projects, over which contacts exist to different international expert networks. |
