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Review on Advances and Challenges in Sepsis Management
Continue reading →: Review on Advances and Challenges in Sepsis ManagementThe heterogeneity of sepsis poses an immense challenge to the long-term goal of personalising the treatment and management of sepsis patients. Novel techniques and platforms for multidimensional phenotyping of the sepsis patient’s host response have great potential as diagnostic and guiding tools for future sepsis management. In this recent review,…
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Summer School on Acute Medicine at University of Groningen
Continue reading →: Summer School on Acute Medicine at University of GroningenAre you a motivated and research-driven student, eager to learn more about acute medicine? Are you ready to dive into the exciting world of innovations within the Emergency Department (ED)? Join the Summer School on Acute Medicine at the University of Groningen! Over the past decade, the University of Groningen…
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Reframing sepsis immunobiology for translation
Continue reading →: Reframing sepsis immunobiology for translationA current report in Lancet Resp. Med. includes the inaugural definition for the dysregulated immune responses in sepsis and a road map for studying and reclassifying the sepsis-related immune responses to enable drug discovery and targeted treatments. We highlight that many fundamental immunological concepts such as resistance, disease tolerance, resilience, resolution, and repair…
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New review on mechanisms of immune dysregulation in sepsis
Continue reading →: New review on mechanisms of immune dysregulation in sepsisA recent review by the EGIS consortium, published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, presents current knowledge and paradigms on mechanisms of immune dysregulation in sepsis. In particular, the EGIS authors discuss conceptual and technical approaches to monitor, evaluate and exploit sepsis-associated immune derangements for the purpose of personalised, high-precision sepsis…
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Post-doctoral position in Infection Biology, Jena
Continue reading →: Post-doctoral position in Infection Biology, JenaThe research group of Translational Infection Medicine at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Jena, Germany) invites talented and highly gifted candidates to apply as Postdoctoral Researcher in Infection Biology. See the full advertisement at the institutes website. The research project focuses on innate immune training, in particular on…
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Post-doctoral position in Immunology, Lyon
Continue reading →: Post-doctoral position in Immunology, LyonA postdoctoral position is open at the Centre de Recherche en Infectiologie at Lyon, France. Scientific focus lies on the role of NLRP3 inflammasome in the immune response to sepsis. See the full job advertisement (pdf) for further information.
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ENIAC award for EGIS-associated MD student
Continue reading →: ENIAC award for EGIS-associated MD studentAndré van der Wurff, MD student in the lab of Stefanie Flohé, University Hospital Essen, Germany, was awarded second place in the European New Investigator Award Competition (ENIAC) at the European Shock Society Congress in Vienna in September 2023 for his study on the suppression of natural killer cells in…
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EGIS at the Weimar Sepsis Update 2023
Continue reading →: EGIS at the Weimar Sepsis Update 2023EGIS was present at this year’s Weimar Sepsis Update meeting with its own dedicated session. Held in beautiful Weimar, the city of classicism and Bauhaus, this biennial meeting has undoubtedly become one of the leading scientific sepsis meetings worldwide. With 17 EGIS members attending the meeting, the EGIS session featured…
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Stop the war!
Continue reading →: Stop the war!Putin has declared war on the free Ukrainian people and we have all woken up to a Europe we could not have imagined before. As scientists working together to improve human health and united in the European Group on Sepsis Immunology (EGIS), we cannot accept and wholeheartedly condemn the Russian…
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News on trained immunity and heme
Continue reading →: News on trained immunity and hemeA recent publication by the EGIS members Sebastian Weis and Michael Bauer reveals a new facet of the recently described long-term memory of innate immune cells, termed trained immunity and its role in sepsis. The authors can show that the course of sepsis is altered when the infected organism had…
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