FEM_TRACE_VOC screening test: A project carried out at the Institute for Breath Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences with partner schools in Austria and Poland and with cooperation of Innsbruck Medical University (Prof Anton Amann) and the University of Applied Sciences Dornbirn (Prof Karl Unterkofler)
Who likes to be pricked by a needle? According to our project target an alternative solution will be: Please breathe!
FEM_TRACE encourages female pupils to detect volatile organic compounds as disease markers supported by our scientists. The infrastructure of the Institute consists of a sleep laboratory, a medical laboratory, an ergometer training centre and features a biomedical database. Beside the natural science tasks, we focus on developing medical devices. FEM_TRACE supports the interest of female pupils for technical studies, and connects the schools involved with university research more closely.
FEM_TRACE tries to use human breath for cancer diagnosis. Linus Pauling, a double Nobel Prize Laureate, has been the breath research pioneer. He detected that human breath consists of around 200 volatile organic compounds. The most prominent breath test allows detection of infection with helicobacter pylori bacteria in the gut – similarly it could be possible to develop breath tests for early cancer diagnosis, diabetes, liver and renal diseases by breath analysis. FEM_TRACE attaches value on equity of both sexes in research.
FEM_TRACE is an outstanding science center in the Austrian provinces of Vorarlberg and Tyrol to support female pupils in natural science and technical studies. It facilitates for pupils to get in touch with our fascinating research field. Partners in the project are three high schools, the Slovak National Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck Medical University, the University of Applied Sciences in Dornbirn and an international scientific society (http://iabr.voc-research.at).
Principal Investigator and Director
Project coordinator
Scientific partners
- Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
- Tyrolean Hospital Association, Innsbruck, Austria
- Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
- University of Applied Sciences, Dornbirn, Austria
Participating schools
- Gymnasium Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Austria
- Gymnasium Adolf-Pichler-Platz, Innsbruck, Austria
- Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace, Torun, Poland
Project duration
October 1, 2009 until September 30, 2011
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