A £150,000 (about $204,000) grant hunts for the earliest warning signs of infection in pregnancy

Sepsis — the body's overwhelming response to infection — is especially dangerous in pregnancy, where it can escalate fast and is hard to spot early. Biomedical scientist Dr. Luke Davies at Cardiff University has won just over £150,000 (about $204,000) from Health and Care Research Wales to hunt for biomarkers: measurable signals in the body that could flag infection in pregnancy and labour early enough to act. The Maternal Sepsis Project links Cardiff and Swansea universities, the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the local health board, and is part of a wider £5.07 million (about $6.9 million) round backing 22 Welsh health research projects.

SDG 3 · Good health and well-being — Mechanism: funding & finance