You exhale...
...we diagnose!
Zurich Exhalomics
A flagship project of Hochschulmedizin Zürich
Zurich Exhalomics
A flagship project of Hochschulmedizin Zürich
Since 2015, we are striving for making breath analysis routine.
Medical diagnostics is often invasive, time-consuming or expensive - frequently all three of these factors together. Breath analysis is a promising alternative that can provide diagnosis or medical monitoring quickly, non-invasively and inexpensively. The consortium of Zurich Exhalomics is fully focused on making the exhalome - the entity of the exhaled molecules - interpretable and usable in everyday clinical practice.
The close, interinstitutional collaboration of researchers from ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich, the University Hospital Zurich, the University Children's Hospital Zurich, the University of Basel, the University Children's Hospital Basel, Empa, the Paul Scherrer Institute, and Agroscope enables all participants to benefit from each other's know-how and to work towards the vision of non-invasive medical diagnostics via breath analysis.
We collect exhaled air either offline or directly at the inlet of the mass spectrometer.
We analyse the exhalome for specific volatile molecules, down to the ppq (parts per quadrillion) range.
If we find characteristic biomarkers in the exhalome, we can diagnose health or disease conditions.
Prof. Dr. Renato Zenobi, Head of the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry at ETH, is the current project leader, working closely together with 14 interdisciplinary teams and their Principal Investigators.
Through the multitude of combined disciplines, we can conduct research in Zurich Exhalomics that is unique in the world and will have a high societal benefit in the longer term.
The research group leaders jointly develop projects, which they drive forward with their groups.
They have been members for many years and are now thankfully making their expertise available on an ad hoc basis.
14 research groups from fundamental sciences, to engineering, to clinical practice are closely working together for
by Dr. Raphael Brechbühler, Empa
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Read Moreby Dr. Imad El Haddad, Group Leader Paul Scherrer Institute, and Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Möller, Head of Pediatric Pneumology at Children University Hospital Zurich.
Read MoreZurich Exhalomics is generously supported by the Uniscientia Foundation, the Lotte and Adolf Hotz-Sprenger Foundation, the Evi Diethelm-Winteler Foundation, the Heidi Ras Foundation, the SNF Foundation, the Ascher Trust, and other donors. The ETH Zurich Foundation, the UZH Foundation, and the USZ Foundation support the Zurich Exhalomics project in partnership building. Don't hesitate to contact us if you would like to support Zurich Exhalomics on the journey to bring breath analysis into clinical routine.