Transforming How We Think About Sepsis
Though many people haven’t even heard of it, sepsis – the body’s extreme response to infection – is the leading ...
Tag: Sepsis
Disaster Medicine: New Resource Prepares for Sepsis Encountered in Austere Conditions
Medical responders have a new resource at their disposal to help in identifying and treating sepsis patients in resource-limited environments: ...
Partner Therapeutics’ Novel Approach to Stratify Sepsis Patients Gains Backing From BARDA
The effort will leverage Partner Therapeutics’ prior experience developing Leukine for Acute Radiation Syndrome The contract award supports development of ...
Sepsis Alliance and Children’s Hospital Association Release Sepsis: Pediatric First Response Training Module
Today, Sepsis Alliance and the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) released the results of their Pediatric Sepsis and ...
Diagnosing Sepsis in Minutes: Cytovale Raises $15 Million in Financing
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office ...
How Candida albicans Exploits Lack of Oxygen to Cause Disease
Researchers from Umeå University have shown how adaption of microbial fungi to low oxygen environments influences their recognition by immune ...
8th FIDSSA Congress – Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of Southern Africa
The 8th Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of Southern Africa FIDSSA Congress 2019 will be held at the Indaba Hotel ...
U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW)
U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week is November 12-18, 2018. Each year in the United States, at least 2 million people become ...
Stony Brook University Selected for BARDA-DRIVe Program
Stony Brook University has been selected as one of eight institutions charged by the Department of Health and Human Services ...
Bioinspired Coating for Medical Devices Repels Blood and Bacteria
A project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and led by the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired ...
BARDA Backs Drug for Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
Atox Bio, a clinical stage company developing novel immunomodulators for severe infections, this week announced that the Biomedical Advanced Research ...
OMRF Awarded 14.5M for Anthrax Studies
The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) a five-year, $14.5 million grant to continue ...
OSU Develops Blood-Cleaning Device to Treat Sepsis
Coatings inside microchannels help remove bacterial fragments and endotoxins in blood as it flows through. Credit: Christina Ullman/OSU The National ...
Bacterial Fibers Critical to Human and Avian Infection
Escherichia coli—a friendly and ubiquitous bacterial resident in the guts of humans and other animals—may occasionally colonize regions outside the ...
Notable Contracts: DTRA Award to Institute for Systems Biology
The Department of Defense this week announced a notable contract award related to the field of chemical, biological, radiological and ...
Notable Biodefense Contracts: DARPA Awards to Battelle, Harvard
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this month announced two major contract awards under the Dialysis Like Therapeutics (DLT) ...
DARPA Dialysis-Like-Therapeutic Program Awards $3.8M to CytoSorbents
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a technology development contract worth up to $3.8 million to CytoSorbents ...
DARPA Funding for Innovative ‘Blood Cleaning’ Device
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals to integrate the component technologies developed in the Dialysis Like ...
DARPA Advancing Dialysis Like Therapeutics
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hosting a Technology Exchange Workshop next week to discuss the DARPA Dialysis-Like ...
UMDNJ, Cepheid Working Together to Advance Bloodstream Bacteria Diagnostics
Cepheid, a molecular diagnostics company based in California, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) have received ...
