Ambalika Tanak MS’16 holds the biosensor that she and fellow researchers developed to test fluid for specific molecules. [Photo: UTD]
The invention is currently awaiting patent approval for the life-threatening complication. “When a patient develops sepsis, every organ thinks it needs to shut down to protect itself. But if every organ shuts down, the person will die,” UTD's Dr. Shalini Prasad says. “It’s a train wreck happening in slow motion."