Sepsis takes the lives of around 50,000 people in the UK every year - that's around one every 12 minutes. It is a bigger killer than breast, bowel and prostate cancer combined and occurs when the body over-reacts to an infection, damaging its own tissues, potentially leading to organ failure and death.

Sepsis Research FEAT is the UK’s sepsis research and awareness charity. It was established in 2013 and was born out of the experience of our founder, himself a sepsis survivor, following terrible personal loss to a condition that has been called the ‘hidden killer’. 

At the heart of our charity is the funding of world-leading research designed to improve outcomes for sepsis patients and their families and to save lives – here in the UK and across the world. The charity was a founding partner in the world-leading GenOMICC research study at the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute. The study is the largest-recruiting of its kind worldwide and examines individual patient DNA samples to understand genetic susceptibility to sepsis in order to improve treatments and outcomes for patients worldwide. Huge progress has already been made. More is urgently needed. Please support us in our vision to #stopsepsisnow.