Alan Griffiths at the 2020 Breath Biopsy Conference

VOC Applications session (15 min) - The timeline of breath analysis - a brief history of when, why and how (Talk sponsored by LECO)

 

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This presentation was supported by LECO

Talk Abstract:
Using breath to diagnose medical conditions is not a new practice, in fact the linking of breath odour to certain illnesses and therefore the choice of treatments or remedies goes back thousands of years. More recently, modern analytical measurements of breath have been becoming more and more popular and relevant for the identification of biomarkers which enable accurate diagnoses of diseases and crucially within early enough timescales to allow effective and or preventative treatments.

Here, we present a brief history of how this field has developed, particularly in the last 10-20 years, with a particular emphasis on the importance of how the use of GCxGC, TOF-MS and HR-TOF-MS are being used to generate higher quality data sets, giving increased accuracy and confidence in analyte identifications and therefore the overall diagnostic results obtained.

Speaker Biography:
After studying chemistry at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Toledo, Ohio, Alan swapped his lab coat for a mixing desk. Ten years later he returned from the music industry back to science as a test and installation engineer on ICP and thermal mass spectrometers at Micromass. Following eight years working with multi-collecting magnetic sectors, Alan moved to LECO UK, working with TOFs and GCxGC systems. 15 years on he now has the role of LECO UK Separation Science Product Specialist for the rapidly growing GC-TOFMS Market.

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