BIOREME Fellow, 1 year later…

Dr Lorenzo Petralia was awarded the EPSRC BIOREME fellowship in October 2022.

Thanks to this important support, he has been able to continue his research at the University of Oxford with the aim to develop a mechanistic model for estimating the site of nitric oxide production within the airways in type 2 high asthma. This work relies on the exhaled nitric oxide laser-based sensor, he was responsible to build under the supervision of Prof. Grant A. D. Ritchie and Prof. Peter A. Robbins.

Now he has recently moved to the University of Innsbruck as a research scientist, where he joined the Institute for Breath Research led by Prof. Chris A. Mayhew and Assistant-Prof. Dr. Veronika Ruzsanyi [link to the Institute].

Here, he will be expanding the scope of his research by adopting state of the art mass-spectrometric technologies for accurate measurements of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in human breath, and investigating the dynamics of exhaled VOCs via multicompartment physiological model of lung and tissues.

He is also part of the HORIZION-funded European Network Orchestrating next-generation mobile modular laboratories for pandemic monitoring preparedness (ONELAB).

He maintains an active collaboration with members of the groups of Prof G. Ritchie and Prof. P. Robbins at the University of Oxford, to finalise his work on the FeNO depth model.