Julian Burschka: What your breath could reveal about your health
ジュリアン・ブルシュカ: あなたの息から健康状態がわかる
Driven by his curiosity, Julian Burschka is combining multiple technical disciplines with strong business acumen to drive innovation and enable new technological advancements. Full bio
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想定してしまうのですが
this habit plays tricks on me.
unexpected pain in my body
and that I cannot attribute,
原因不明の痛みを感じ
might turn a tense back into heart disease
into deep vein thrombosis.
思い込んだりするんです
with any deadly or incurable disease.
宣告されたことはありませんよ
for no clear reason.
痛んだりするものです
幸運な人ばかりではありません
50 million people die worldwide.
5千万人以上が亡くなっています
economies like ours,
by slowly progressing diseases:
ゆっくりと進行する慢性病です
cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes,
アルツハイマー病、糖尿病
in diagnosing and treating many of these.
診断と治療において大きく進歩してきました
where further advancement in health
新たな治療法を生み出すだけでは
by developing new treatments.
進歩できない段階に来ています
when we look at one aspect
diseases have in common:
when treatment is started.
大きく左右されるということです
once symptoms occur.
見つからないものです
many diseases can remain asymptomatic,
症状が現れないこともあるため
for a long period of time.
診断されないことです
a persisting need for new ways
新しい診断方法が必要なのです
新しい診断方法が必要なのです
「スクリーニング」と呼びます
the World Health Organization,
スクリーニングとは
identification of unrecognized disease
確かでない疾患の推定を
rapidly and easily ..."
診断技術を用いて行う」ことです
so let me repeat it:
もう一度言います
確かでない疾患の推定を
both rapidly and easily.
診断技術を用いて行う」
on the words "rapidly" and "easily"
という言葉に注目してください
screening methods
who have undergone colonoscopy
for colorectal cancer
私が言いたいことが
of medical tools available
such as radiography
that for long has been overlooked:
見過ごされてきた媒体があります
for medical analysis.
大きな可能性を秘めている―
composed of five components:
構成されています
water and argon.
水とアルゴンです
hundreds of other components
organic compounds,
even thousands of them
organic compounds in our breath
have already experienced breath analysis.
すでに呼気分析を経験したはずです
車を運転して家路についていると
late at night,
a friendly police officer
あなたに停車を求め
into a device like this one.
息を吹きかけるように言います
the ethanol concentration in your breath
測るのに使われ
in your condition is a clever idea.
判断するのです
to worry about, all fine.
何も心配ないということです
alcohol levels in your breath,
like the ones I've shown you
もっと多様な疾患を
the smell of a person's breath
ある疾患に罹患した状態の
on breath analysis have skyrocketed,
呼気分析研究が盛んになり
is now becoming reality.
現実になりつつあります
that I showed you earlier.
could be detected by breath analysis.
検知します
organic compounds in our breath.
to a breath sample,
センサーが息を検知すると
揮発性有機化合物を表す
organic compounds that we exhale.
a fingerprint of your metabolism,
人それぞれ固有の情報を含んでおり
生化学的プロセスを表すものです
that occur in your body.
生化学的プロセスを表すものです
of your exhaled breath.
is to correlate a certain signature
of certain medical conditions.
several undeniable benefits.
いくつかあります
handheld devices
in many different settings
行うことができます
病院へ行かなくても済みます
a test shall be performed.
病院へ行かなくても済みます
into an alcohol breath tester.
簡単なものだからです
would reduce patient burden
患者の負担を軽減し
for broad adoption of the technology.
of medical conditions.
for multiple diseases at the same time.
スクリーニングすることもできます
a different medical tool
それぞれ独自の医療診断ツールで
what you're looking for.
見つかりません
breath analysis is predestined
多くに欠けているものを
screening tests are lacking.
eventually provide us
プラットフォームが生まれるでしょう
low cost per test.
プラットフォームが生まれるでしょう
needs to be restricted,
can only be performed
ごく限られた人々ー
for example, the high-risk population;
実施されることになり
per person needs to be kept at a minimum.
最小限に留めなければなりません
on a larger group of people,
長期間に渡って行われたら
of time for each individual?
to something very valuable
that tracks the same patient
何ヶ月あるいは何年も
are often based on a limited data set,
限られたデータセットに基づいており
of a patient's medical history
of a reference population.
open up a new dimension
可能にするでしょう
for personalized treatment.
扉をひらきます
that is something like,
then why aren't we using it today?"
どうして今使われていないんだろう?」
challenges, for example.
extremely reliable sensors
of volatile organic compounds
in a very defined manner
分析結果に影響しないような方法で
to be validated in clinical trials,
実証されなければならず
can be measured against baselines.
個人の状態を測るためです
can be generated
holds up to its promises,
that could truly aid us
リアクティブ(反応的)な治療から
by symptoms of disease
リアクティブ(反応的)な治療から
diagnosis and treatment
プロアクティブ(積極的)なものへと
プロアクティブ(積極的)なものへと
and it's a fundamental one.
can be commercialized as I describe it,
is, in fact, a problem
with sufficient certainty
あるいは患者の命に関わるかを
would ever cause any symptoms
that you would never suffer from it.
それが無害なことがあるからです
a potentially deadly disease?
どれほど苦しむことでしょう?
that the disease was detected
is to undergo early treatment
完治する希望を持って
without side effects.
副作用をもたらすものです
「過剰な治療」なんです
「過剰な治療」なんです
has to be treated immediately
全ての疾患がすぐさま
訳ではないからです
of routine screening
that can rationalize treatment,
何と呼べばいいのか
that should not be a source of concern?
何と呼ぶべきなのか?
using breath analysis
呼気分析を用いた定期検診が
we'll be able to break this dilemma
いつするべきなのかを
予測できるようになることです
organic compounds that we exhale
揮発性有機化合物は
on our physiological condition.
膨大な量の情報を含んでいます
we have only scratched the surface.
ほんの表層に過ぎません
and breath profiles across the population,
多様なサンプルから
age, origin and lifestyle,
更に集めることで
should increase.
should provide us with a powerful tool
特定の疾患を積極的に検知するだけでなく
specific diseases
and ultimately prevent them.
機会と課題を
and challenges
十分な動機になるはずです
十分な動機になるはずです
part-time hypochondriacs like me.
皆さんにとっても
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Julian Burschka - TechnologistDriven by his curiosity, Julian Burschka is combining multiple technical disciplines with strong business acumen to drive innovation and enable new technological advancements.
Why you should listen
Julian Burschka has spent many years developing materials for efficient solar energy conversion. Notably he pioneered an elegant method to fabricate so-called perovskite solar cells -- seminal research that later was published in Nature and cited several thousand times since.
Born a scientist at heart, Burschka is constantly striving to expand his horizon and is thrilled by new technological discoveries that might fundamentally change our daily lives. More recently, his interest was sparked by ultra-sensitive gas sensors and the detection of volatile organic compounds for various applications.
In his current role as a senior project manager at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, Burschka is leading a multinational R&D team that develops smart material solutions to enable next-generation displays. He holds a Master of Business Administration and a PhD in chemistry, both of which he obtained following multilingual studies in Germany, France and Switzerland.
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