The last eleven years, the Executive Board and the General Assembly are proud to present a very vivid workload summarized as a) continuing support to the investigators of the Hellenic Sepsis Study Group; b) continuing education in sepsis by the organization of thirteen national and international workshops and conferences and by the publications of Greek guidelines in sepsis; c) fifteen completed clinical studies and ten ongoing clinical studies in Greece; four of the clinical trials are international with other European Countries; d) support of PhD theses in sepsis; and e) 72 original publications in international peer-reviewed medical journals.
HISS is pioneer in personalized medicine and is presenting as major achievement the design, conduct, analysis and publication of the double-blind, pivotal trial SAVE-MORE for the successful management of moderate to severe COVID-19 pneumonia with anakinra guided by the biomarker suPAR. This trial was conducted in 37 study sites in Greece and Italy; 606 patients were enrolled and the study received advice from COVID-ETF of the European Medicines Agency.