The Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health and Professor Hannu Korkeala hosted the AntiBotABE meeting on 17-18th June in Helsinki. Centre Recherche Service Santé Armée supported by VITAMIB coordinates an international consortium on the development of neutralizing antibodies against botulinum toxins A, B, E.
It is a collaborative project under the EU’s 7th Research Framework Programme in the security research area. The AntiBotABE consortium contains of academic and industrial partners with the expertise to carry out highly innovative research and development in this exciting domain.
Participants from Centre Recherche Service Santé Armée, France, Ministère de la Défense, France, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, Institut Pasteur, France, Health Protection Agency HPA, United Kingdom, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, LFB Biotechnologies, France, University of Helsinki, Finland and VITAMIB, France shared and evaluated the recent developments in the AntiBotABE project and also experienced the Finnish summer.