Application Area: Sepsis

Technologies 2

• Tethered Liquid Perfluorocarbon (TLP), a non-stick coating for medical devices
  Every device implanted in the body or in contact with flowing blood faces two critical challenges that can threaten the life of the patient it is meant to help: blood clotting and bacterial infection. To confront this challenge, Wyss Institute researchers created a super-repellent, Thin Layer Perfluorocarbon (TLP) coating specifically designed to prevent clot formation...
• Pathogen Capture Technology for Infectious Disease Therapeutics and Diagnostics
  Microbial contamination is the cause of life-threatening cases of sepsis, meningitis and multiple other infectious diseases that are a major cause of death world-wide. Equally prevalent are pathogenic contaminants in our environment, food, and manufacturing processes. In each case, the presence of microbial contaminants must be confirmed, and when they are found, they need to...

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• Translation News Wyss Institute startup, Opsonix Inc., honored with prestigious Spinoff Award
  May 15, 2017
• Press Release How to diagnose systemic infections much more quickly and reliably
  June 14, 2016
• Press Release Harvard’s Wyss Institute to lead multi-institutional project to uncover underlying causes of tolerance to infection
  May 31, 2016