Novel Breath tests for detecting gut dysfunction

Project description

Each year, almost 60,000 Australians undergo ‘low care’ endoscopic procedures, or put simply, an endoscopy that could have been avoided. A key challenge for the diagnosis and monitoring of intestinal dysfunction is the absence of low-cost, non-invasive (or minimally invasive) tools that can detect functional and morphological changes of the bowel. Breath analytics represents a powerful, innovative technology that can be used to non-invasively, rapidly and with high sensitivity and specificity detect discrete changes in bowel health. In this project, the student will work on further development of  13C-breath tests for measuring intestinal brush-border enzymes and diagnosis of gut health or dysfunction.

Co-supervisors

Dr Roger Yazbeck in College of Medicine and Public Health https://researchnow.flinders.edu.au/en/persons/roger-yazbek-2

Assumed knowledge

Biochemistry, human physiology, molecular biology,

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