2018 Research Annual Report

Critical Care Medicine

Featured Research

Liver Protein Activated by Young Mice Could Lead to New Sepsis Therapy It may come as little surprise that younger mice develop less liver damage from septic infections than older mice. But in discovering a mechanism that drives the difference, scientists in the Division of Critical Care Medicine may have opened the door to a new treatment for a condition that causes nearly 215,000 deaths a year in pediatric and adult intensive care units.