Terence Risby

Terence Risby is professor emeritus in the Department of Environmental Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.Terence received a PhD in Chemistry from Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine London in 1970. His post-doctoral fellowships took him to the University of Madrid and the University of North Carolina. Terence’s current research interest is the use of breath biomarkers in clinical molecular epidemiological studies.

Content by Terence Risby:

Fields & Applications Clinical

CSI: Breathprint

03/31/2014 | Terence Risby, Joachim Pleil

Will the future see crime scene investigators collecting breath samples from potential perpetrators to identify them? In a word: no.

Techniques & Tools Clinical

Breath Analysis for Disease Diagnosis

06/10/2013 | Terence Risby, Lisa Spacek

Jumping on the breath biomarker bandwagon is tempting, but a number of failures to observe the ... fundamental rules of good science have cast doubt over the ... technique. Here, the authors describe best practice, from collection to clinical evaluation.