On October 28th, Brian McAlvin and Brian Timko, also known as”Good SIRS” swept the first of three rounds of the MIT $100K Pitch competition, winning both judge and audience approval with a promising device to treat sepsis.  They are developing a blood-filtering device that can remove factors in the blood that are responsible for organ failure.  The grand prize at the MIT $100K Pitch is $4,000 and the founder.org audience choice, which is done through live text message voting­­ by the capacity crowd at the event, is a $2,000 prize.  Congratulations!

You can find out more information at the following link:http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/articles/good-sirs-sweeps-mit-100k-pitch-on-path-to-prevent-deaths-from-sepsis/