• Professor Sunghoon Kwon's research team, in collaboration with Professors Wanbum Park and Inho Kim from Seoul National University Hospital and company QuantaMatrix, has announced a breakthrough in significantly improving the survival rate of sepsis patients, a condition with a mortality rate exceeding 40%. Sepsis is a life-threatening condition caused by the proliferation of pathogens like bacteria or fungi in the bloodstream, leading to an excessive inflammatory response throughout the body. This can rapidly cause organ failure, often resulting in death within a few days. The 30-day mortality rate for sepsis is over 30%, more than twice that of heart attacks or myocardial infarctions. Rapid prescription of the optimal antibiotic treatment is crucial to reducing the mortality rate.

• This achievement was published on July 25th (2024) in Nature, one of the world's most prestigious academic journals, with an impact factor of 50.5.

Source: https://ece.snu.ac.kr/ece/news?md=v&bbsidx=55758

Translated by: Jiyong Yoo, English Editor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, cyoo7@snu.ac.kr