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Dr Kenneth Baillie Sepsis Research FEAT was delighted to hear yesterday that Dr. Kenneth Baillie has been appointed Professor of Experimental Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. This is tremendous news and well-deserved recognition of the enormous contribution made by Dr. Baillie to the field of Intensive Care Medicine in general and to the worldwide […]
Sepsis Awareness Month 2021 is now officially over. And what a month it was! Coverage started with a bang on 1st September – in the press, on TV, and on the radio – and continued thick and fast throughout the whole month. September was all about raising awareness of sepsis and the symptoms and that […]
This month’s shout-out goes to Cy Gregory: way more than just a fundraising hero this Sepsis Awareness Month. If you haven’t already read Cy’s moving account of his baby son Oliver’s sepsis story in his four-part blog on our website we would really encourage you to do so: read more here. Cy then took over […]
Every year we mark World Sepsis Day on the 13th September with our World Sepsis Day Virtual launch event. Gathering speakers from the media, research, and the government as well as sepsis survivors themselves, is a chance to bring together people who really understand sepsis and can talk powerfully and eloquently about why it is […]
Dr Kenneth Baillie Sepsis Research FEAT is absolutely delighted to report that GenOMICC’s chief investigator Dr Kenneth Baillie was last week awarded a Pride of Scotland Special Recognition Award. The award was made in recognition of the hugely important work done by Dr Baillie, an Academic Consultant in Critical Care Medicine and Senior Research Fellow […]
Genes linked An international group of scientists has discovered 13 DNA sequences that are associated with people developing the most severe form of Genes linked to severe COVID-19. These latest hugely important findings – recently published in the journal Nature – come from the COVID-19 Host Genomics Initiative, of which researchers from the GenOMICC study […]
Additional £90k funding Sepsis Research FEAT is delighted to continue to support the GenOMICC study at the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute. Our aim always has been and always will be to invest in research into sepsis and critical illness to help improve outcomes and develop new treatments. GenoMICC has proven that research into genes […]
Calling All Schools We are delighted to announce that our SEPS_IS (Sepsis in Schools) partnership initiative with the University of Glasgow is now live. Packs are available to any school across the UK, with materials aimed at pupils and teachers at the senior school level. The pack is ready to use in classrooms in the […]
Sepsis Awareness Month 2021 Sepsis Awareness Month in September and World Sepsis Day on the 13th are now just weeks away so you won’t be surprised to hear that the team has been hard at work putting together our plans. This year’s campaign will look a little different from previous years and we have a […]
It has been a very tough year for many charities, and we are no exception. When the pandemic struck, we took the bold decision to keep our team working rather than use the furlough scheme. We cut our income and expenditure budgets significantly, but we promised to continue to deliver on our commitment to funding […]