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Clinical Applications

Agnieszka Smolinska – Maastricht University

“I think, that using ReCIVA Breath Sampler made the collection of exhaled breath more standardised and more professional (in comparison to bags, which has been often used in the breath community). The exhaled breath samples obtained from ReCIVA are characterised with lower variations, thus allowing for better discovery of the compounds of interest, e.g. compounds specific to a disease.”

Andrew Bishop – Wake Forest University

“We are using breath analysis to ask a number of different scientific questions which have relevance for identifying non-invasive predictors of disease risks and evidence of harms, due to various environmental exposures. I am most excited about generating the pilot data that we can use to guide future research questions.”

Renelle Myers – University of British Columbia

“Through the ReCIVA, Owlstone gave us a collection device that’s well designed and easy to use – it made it easier for us to enter into the realm of breath research. Since then, we’ve has a lot of guidance and collaboration with Owlstone that’s really helped us get on our feet.”

Pedro Duarte Vaz – The Champalimaud Foundation

“My research in breath started when I joined my current role, although the techniques have been familiar to me for many years. Nevertheless, Breath Biopsy products make the approach easier by standardising procedures and enrolling in this challenge has prompted my career to tackle a topic, which will have a direct impact in saving lives. And that drives me!”

James Covington – University of Warwick

“One of the things that makes VOCs so appealing to me is the wide range of opportunities, from explosive detection and security applications to health and biomedical. For me, VOC biomarkers have the potential to make a real impact. If we can get one of these devices or tests into the clinical domain and it becomes a standard test, that would be the pinnacle of my career.”

Anke-Hilse Maitland-van der Zee – Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam.

“Breath is very easy to collect. It’s a very non-invasive measurement, it doesn’t hurt. We do a lot of research in children, so it’s especially important to find non-invasive ways to collect information that you can repeat regularly.”

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Pedro Duarte Vaz
My research in breath started when I joined my current role, although the techniques have been familiar to me for many years. Nevertheless, Breath Biopsy products make the approach easier by standardising procedures and enrolling in this challenge has prompted my career to tackle a topic, which will have a direct impact in saving lives. And that drives me!
Pedro Duarte Vaz
Pedro Duarte Vaz The Champalimaud Foundation
Agi Smolinska
I think, that using ReCIVA as breath sampler made the collection of exhaled breath more standardised and more professional (in comparison to bags, which has been often used in the breath community). The exhaled breath samples obtained from ReCIVA are characterised with lower variations, thus allowing for better discovery of the compounds of interest, e.g. compounds specific to a disease.
Agi Smolinska
Agi Smolinska Maastricht University
Harshman et al. 2019
The results we have obtained illustrate the utility of the ReCIVA breath collector for providing consistent exhaled breath onto adsorbent media, eliminating the pitfalls associated with collecting breath in bags, while gaining comparable results to samples collected by standard breath bags.
Harshman et al. 2019 Journal of Breath Research
Bhavra et al. 2022
The ReCIVA breath-sampler was well tolerated in school-age children and breath-sample acquisition was found to be a feasible proposition. […] Overall, the data presented suggests that the ReCIVA is a promising candidate for standardized VOC collection in children […]
Bhavra et al. 2022 Journal of Breath Research

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