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Eligo Bioscience was awarded funding from CARB-X to develop CRISPR-based phage therapeutics (up to $1.82 million now, and up to $7.05 million if project milestones are met). This is the first CRISPR-based phage project CARB-X has funded.

The Academy of Finland has granted 10 million Euro for research into COVID-related projects, and part of that will fund phage work! Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä and University of Helsinki in Finland were awarded funding for a

Hugo Oliveira (University of Minho, Portugal) and colleagues published a new paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology showing that a phage tailspike with EPS-depolymerase activity, encoded by a phage belonging to a new genus within t

Marta Lourenço (Institut Pasteur) and colleagues published a new paper in Cell Host and Microbe on how spatial heterogeneity in the gut limits phage predation and supports phage-host coexistence.

Andrew Hryckowian and Eric Martens have written a nice article on the backstory behind their recent paper on how capsular polysaccharides influence phage interactions with the gut symbiont Bacterioides thetaiotaomicron. Behind-the-paper | N

Josef Prazak (Bern University Hospital, Switzerland) and colleagues published a new paper in Critical Care Medicine showing that prophylactically administering nebulized phages to rats with experimental ventilator-associated pneumonia reduc

Bartłomiej Grygorcewicz (Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Poland) and colleagues published a new paper in Microbial Drug Resistance showing that Acinetobacter baumannii phages could reduce biofilm biomass in a human urine model, a

Heather Hendrickson's lab at Massey University in New Zealand is working on finding phages for honeybee pathogens. Here's a nice video update from Heather, which also features Danielle Kok, a PhD student isolating the phages for this projec

TAILOR, a non-profit initiative in Houston, Texas that provides therapeutic phages as a service, has a new website! Read more about TAILOR here!

Jeremy Barr, Monash University The Barr lab is looking for laboratory-adapted strains of T2 and T6 phage from different labs to examine variation between them and older stocks. If you have either of these phages and would be willing to send

Camilo Barbosa Hi @phagedirectory, I’m looking for phages against P. aeruginosa that are in the processes of getting FDA approval or are already approved for use in humans as therapy. Can you help me spreading the word or pointing me in the

Phage Directory PHAVES will continue on July 7th, most likely at 11:00 AM EDT (UTC-4) / 5:00 PM CEST (UTC+2), so save the date! Details will be posted here closer to the date: https://seminars.phage.directory. Check out the recap (and rec

Kevin Forsberg, a postdoctoral fellow at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, was awarded a 1.5M NIAID New Innovators Award to pursue his research into how bacteria defend against viruses. This is the first year this award has been o

Matthew Brown (Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, North Carolina) and colleagues published a new paper in Viruses on the development and evaluation of a new phage-based MRSA diagnostic screen. The screen uses two luciferase reporte

Eric Sumrall (ETH Zurich) and colleagues published a new paper in Applied and Environmental Microbiology describing a novel phage protein tool kit that can be used for glycotyping and specific separation of Listeria monocytogenes

Phages use holin proteins to lyse cells from within. Tanbir Ahammad (Miami Univeristy, Ohio) and colleagues have used continuous-wave electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy to elucidate the structural dynamics and topology of phage Φ2

Md. Tanveer Hossain (Iwate University, Japan) and collaborators pubished an article in Viruses showing an evolution experiment where they adapt ssRNA phage Qβ to high temperatures. This adaptation occurred quickly, and did not lead to reduc

Ever wondered about phage abundance, diversity or geographic patterns of phage-host interactions in an urban setting like New York City? Kristen Gulino (New York University) and collaborators published a new paper in mSystems showing the in

Mihnea Mangalea and Breck Duerkop (University of Colorado School of Medicine) published a new minireview in Infection and Immunity on the physiological consequences of different phage resistance mechanisms, and how this understanding can im

Peter Voorhees (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) and colleagues published a new review in the Journal of Controlled Release on the challenges and opportunities for phage-based in situ microbiome engineering in the gut.