Respiratory Research Needs

Getting the correct diagnosis as early as possible can be crucial to how serious the disease becomes. A relatively new approach is to use biomarkers – biological phenomena that can be measured, and the dimensions of which tell us about the patient's health.

There is a great need for a non-invasive, specific, reproducible and simple method to find biomarkers for various lung diseases that affect the small airways.

The search for new biomarkers

PExA's clients consist of lung research centres within the health services, in academia and in pharmaceutical companies, all of whom are currently...

The importance of early diagnostics

By using PExA's instrument, researchers are given the opportunity to study patients’ various conditions in the early stages...

Research areas

The PExA method can be used to develop early diagnosis of various respiratory diseases such as COPD, asthma, tuberculosis...