Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute - Medical Mycology

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The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute is situated at the Utrecht Science Park. It is one of the KNAW institutes. KNAW stands for Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The Westerdijk Institute is one of the largest fungal reference collections of the world, that maintains about 100.000 life fungal strains (moulds and yeasts).