Manu Shankar-Hari : Vaccinating for better outcomes: Sepsis and Sepsis survivorship
Manu Shankar-Hari is Professor of Translational Critical Care Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and works as a consultant physician in intensive care medicine. Manu’s research training involved two disparate sciences (MSc in Epidemiology, and PhD in Immunology). Manu’s translational immunology research spans bench to bedside, focussed on dissecting clues from malfunctioning immune system to enable successful immunomodulation for critically ill patients. Manu leads a research lab focused on addressing one of the major global challenges in medicine: Sepsis.
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On Thursday, September 24, 2026, the “Bridge the Gap” event, organized by Claire Richards and Roland Cahen, brought together 24 biologists, physicians, researchers, professors, and designers to discuss rapid Point-of-Care diagnosis of sepsis.
Maëlisse is a PhD student at MICALIS, INRAe. To gain a better understanding of the reality of sepsis in a hospital setting, she swapped her researcher’s lab coat for a clinical one for a week of shadowing in the Intensive Care Unit at Raymond-Poincaré Hospital in Garches.