CBC on Virtual Tour: Breath Biopsy–a New Paradigm for Early Detection of Cancer & Other Disease

Tue 24 November 2020

Owlstone Medical’s vision is to save 100,000 lives and $1.5 billion in healthcare costs by realizing the enormous promise of breath-based diagnostics through the development and application of Breath Biopsy®. Join Billy Boyle, CEO of Owlstone Medical on Tuesday 24th November at 1900hrs GMT to hear more about the platform and how it is being used to advance the early detection of disease.

About this event
It is a sobering statistic that one in two of us will get cancer in our lifetimes and cancer is the second leading cause of death globally. Early detection is our greatest opportunity, with estimates that if detected early, approximately half of lung cancer patients and three quarters percent of colon cancer patients can be cured with treatments that exist today compared with only 5% and 10% respectively today.

Breath Biopsy has the potential to directly transform this dynamic by detecting volatile organic compounds produced or modified by metabolic processes within the body – changes in which can be characteristic of specific disease.

Billy Boyle is an engineering graduate from Cambridge University. He is one of the original co-founders of Owlstone Inc, spun out of Cambridge in 2004, which has raised $28 million in investment and won >$25 million in defence contracts. He initially worked with silicon foundries in the design and fabrication of the core microchip technology and is co-inventor on 19 patents. He then assumed a commercial role with P&L responsibility for the Scientific Instruments and Industrial business units; responsible for sales of FAIMS products and contracts with >150 clients globally, including Agilent, Thermo, Roche Diagnostics, Samsung, GSK, 4D Pharma, Mayo Clinic and the NHS.

This event is part of the new series of the ‘CBC on Virtual Tour’ – the chance to learn more about the Cambridge Biomedical Campus where over 20,000 people at the forefront of the changing face of healthcare are working.

Cost: Free - online