Gloria is a doctor at a large European
hospital she has lost many patients to
sepsis a serious often life-threatening
complication caused by infectious
diseases she heard that sepsis is now
one of the most common causes of death
or hospitalized patients in European
countries and effects around 50 million
people worldwide each year
Gloria did some more research into the
problem and found several Publications
that established treatment options such
as the prescription of antibiotics and
the introduction of intensive care units
have already reduced the number of
people dying from sepsis
even so many people with sepsis still
die
she was however encouraged when she
learned that improving patients own
defensive immune response using
immunotherapy could further reduce the
number of deaths the scientists of the
European research project immunosep want
to be Pioneers in the treatment of
sepsis through the introduction of
personalized immunotherapy challenging
the current one-size-fits-all approach
and overreacting or under-reacting
immune response plays a critical role in
the physiology of sepsis yet manifests
very differently in individual patients
for this reason the immunosep Precision
medicine approach has great potential to
save many more patients
immunosep investigates the utility of
personalized immunotherapy to help
doctors like Gloria improve outcomes for
sepsis patients
the team is conducting immunoprofiling
on patients cells and blood to analyze
individuals differing immune Health
using cutting-edge Technologies such as
single cell sequencing genomics and
epigenomics metabolomics and analyzes of
the microbiome the insights will inform
the design and execution of future
Precision medicine-based immunotherapy
trials and produce a pipeline of
theranostics diagnostic tests working
alongside this immunotherapeutic regimen
in managing sepsis eventually these
novel immunotherapeutic treatments will
be introduced to our health systems
benefiting not only glorious patients
but many more around the world