participating groups

Departments of the four universities and the five research institutes are affiliated with VLAG. These departments and research groups consist of 125 senior scientists, 40 postdocs and more than 300 PhD students (as of January 1, 2004).

Wageningen University
Agrotechnology & Food Sciences
(link to website)
Biochemistry
Bioprocess Engineering
Biophysics
Food Chemistry
Food Microbiology
Food Physics
Food Process Engineering
Host-Microbe Interactomics
Human Nutrition (Chairs: Nutrition and Health, Nutrition and Epidemiology, Nutrition, Metabolism and Genomics, Nutrition and Pharmacology, Sensory Science and Eating Behaviour)
Microbiology
Organic Chemistry
Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science
Product Design and Quality Management
Systems and Control
Systems and Synthetic Biology
Toxicology

Maastricht University Medical Centre+ (MUMC+)
NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism
(link to website)
Research line 1: Metabolic syndrome
Research line 2: Gut-liver homeostasis
Research line 3: Chronic inflammatory disease and wasting
Research line 4: Gene-environment interactions

Wageningen University & Research centre
Food & Biobased Research
(link to website)
Business unit Bio-based Products
Business unit Fresh, Food & Chains

Wageningen University & Research centre
RIKILT Institute of Food Safety
(link to website)
Department of Safety & Health

TNO (link to website)
Healthy living
Food

NIZO food research (link to website)
Department of Flavour, Nutrients and Ingredients
Department of Product Technology

National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) (link to website)
Centre for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands

Public Health and Health Services Division

Nutrition, Medicines and Consumer Safety Division