In co-operation with Rupert Hochegger (Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Institute for Food Safety, Department of Molecularbiology and Microbiology, Vienna) we develop and validate real-time PCR assays for the detection of food allergens and the quantitative determination of game species in food samples. Since 2009 the AGES has financed two PhD thesis and one diploma thesis, a third PhD thesis is currently carried out.