A pioneer of the “Electronic Nose” delivered Technion UK’s Ron Arad lecture in London.
Professor Hossam Haick from the Technion in Haifa, an expert in the field of nanotechnology and non-invasive disease diagnosis, delivered a lecture at the Royal College of Physicians on the developments into his pioneering research into nanoarrays that he is using to identify disease biomarkers as a novel diagnostic tool.
The professor is an Israeli-Christian Arab scientist and engineer and is the pioneer of the Electronic Nose — a medical device that can sniff out 17 specific diseases in a person’s breath, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, tuberculosis, diabetes and lung cancer.
Professor Haick told the audience: “Every disease has a unique signature, known as what we call a ‘breath print’. The challenge is to bring the best science we have proven into reality by developing a smaller device that captures all the components of a disease that appear in the breath.”
