21.7.2015

FEM_BREATH: A Sparkling Science project carried out at Innsbruck Medical University and at the Institute for Breath Research of the University of Innsbruck with partner schools and research institutes in Austria, Slovakia and Poland 

The Institute of Measurement Science and the Mathematical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences cooperate as the partner research institutes with the Austrian Breath Research Institute (BRI) of the University of Innsbruck in the Sparkling Science project FEM_BREATH.

FEM_BREATH encourages pupils (mainly students of the secondary schools/gymnasia) to detect volatile organic compounds as disease markers, supported by scientists, and to develop new medical breath tests.

FEM_BREATH supports the interest of pupils for technical studies, and connects the schools involved with university research more closely. The pupils contribute to all research tasks actively, such as scientific literature search, working in clinical environment, lab work, measurements with analytical devices, biostatistical analysis and data interpretation.

For further information on the Sparkling Science FEM_BREATH project see the FEM_BREATH Project Flyer, and/or check the detailed project description directly at the web page of the Sparkling Science.