Project description
Rapid diagnosis to save lives of sepsis patients
Sepsis is a life-threatening medical emergency that kills more than 11 million people each year. An extreme response to an infection, 80 % of deaths from sepsis could have been prevented with faster diagnosis and treatment. However, present tests are time-consuming laboratory procedures. The EU funded SepTec project is developing a revolutionary, rapid solution in the form of a diagnostic device that screens blood in vitro to detect and identify dangerous pathogens within 15 minutes at extremely low concentrations. It will facilitate accurate diagnosis and treatment of sepsis infection up to 4 days earlier than is currently possible, reducing mortality by 50 %.
Objective
49M patients are diagnosed with Sepsis and 11M die annually worldwide and costs over €30 billion to treat. This is a senseless tragedy as 80% of sepsis deaths could be prevented with rapid diagnosis and treatment.
SepTec is the groundbreaking, cost-effective technology required to provide the solution.
SepTec is a patent-pending in-vitro diagnostic device that screens blood for the diagnosis of sepsis infection, detecting and identifying pathogens within 15 minutes at very low concentrations (<10 CFU/ml) without the need complicated lab tests. Preliminary health economics research shows that our rapid Sepsis infection diagnosis will result in patients receiving the correct treatment between 2 and 4.5 days earlier than in current protocols (resulting in a consequent 50% reduction in mortality rate), 25 times fewer patients receiving unnecessary antibiotics and a healthcare saving between €17-40m per 5m population.
The global point of care market is expected to be valued €50.51bn by year 2026, (CAGR of 9.6%). Within this market, the market for point-of-care tests (POCT) for infectious diseases (including sepsis) is €3.7bn annually and sepsis specific POC diagnostics testing market is expected to grow from €1bn by 2026. To exploit this lucrative market opportunity, we must complete an innovation project to progress our highly promising results into a product suitable for a large-scale clinical validation, mass manufacturing and subsequently commercialization.
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- social sciencessociologydemographymortality
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesinfectious diseases
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicinepharmacology and pharmacypharmaceutical drugsantibiotics
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicshealth economics
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Programme(s)
Call for proposal
(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3
Funding Scheme
SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2Coordinator
D09 NR58 Dublin
Ireland
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.