Welcome Week 2024

LSU student Jake Davis is a true team player. Not only is the Austin, Texas native a member of the LSU football team, but he is also part of the team transforming healthcare for the better as part of the research behind a new test that diagnoses sepsis in minutes.Learn more ➡️ lsu.edu/blog/2024/09/research_jakedavis_rh.php

LSU researchers teamed up with Our Lady of the Lake Health and San Francisco tech firm Cytovale to pioneer the first test to diagnose sepsis earlier and faster. Sepsis is the leading cause of death in hospitals, taking roughly 350,000 lives in the U.S. per year, with Louisiana’s sepsis mortality rates being the worst in the country. Most of these deaths are preventable, but the technology hasn’t existed until now.Read more about our world-changing research being done in Louisiana: https://www.lsu.edu/winning-teams/

LSU, Our Lady of the Lake Health, and San Francisco tech firm Cytovale have joined forces to solve one of the largest problems in healthcare today: sepsis. Learn how the first early prevention test to diagnose sepsis works and how our researchers developed this life-saving technology.Read more about our world-changing research being done in Louisiana: https://www.lsu.edu/winning-teams/

Just keep swimming? While it may seem like shark attacks are on the rise, LSU Museum of Natural Science Professor and Curator of Fishes Prosanta Chakrabarty takes a bite out of this common misconception 🦈

A tradition to begin the semester: Putting with President! ⛳️ Check out LSU President William F. Tate IV taking on challengers in the Union.