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Hanson Wade The 2nd Hanson Wade Bacteriophage Therapy Summit takes place (virtually) Aug 27-28, and registration is open! We (Jessica and Jan, Phage Directory) are excited to be participating in a panel discussion/workshop alongside Dr. Au

The Mayo Clinic has been in the news lately as a major US medical institution making serious investments into phage therapy. Watch this 5-min video about how the Mayo Clinic treated its first patient, John Haverty, with phages.

The Mayo Clinic has invested $1.75 million in Adaptive Phage Therapeutics, which will allow APT to initiate a clinical trial to address periprosthetic joint infections (an estimated commercial market of $900 million per year). The trial is

Rijul Kochhar (MIT) published a new article on the pre-d’Hérelle history of phages, and the many meanings of phages today in the space of this ‘pre-discovery’. It’s a story of science, religion and late 19th century colonial healthcare with

Huijun Geng (Dalian University of Technology, China) and colleagues published a paper looking into phage therapy as a treatment for Staphylococcus aureus-induced mastitis using a mouse model. Mice with induced mastitis showed improved masti

Armata Pharmaceuticals (a clinical-stage phage therapy biotech in Marina Del Ray, California) is hiring a research associate.

Phage Directory Our next PHAVES event will take place Aug. 4 at 11:00 AM EST / 8:30 PM IST. We'll be interviewing Pranav Johri and Apurva Virmani Johri, founders of Vitalis Phage Therapy, about their impressive progress improving access to

Elizabeth Svoboda wrote a Nature Outlook article diving into the current state of phage therapy options for cystic fibrosis patients, and initiatives working to make this a reality. We're thrilled to see Phage Directory highlighted in this

The aquaculture industry continues to move toward phage therapy; here's a recent review published in Antibiotics by Justyna Kowalska (Proteon Pharmaceuticals) colleagues. Read the highlights in this article on The Fish Site.

Christopher Duplessis and Biswajit Biswas (US Naval Medical Research Center) published a new systematic review in Antibiotics on topical phage therapy for chronically infected wounds. They also discuss their preparations for a phase II rand

Legesse Garedew Kifelew (Flinders University, Australia) and colleagues published a new paper in BMC Microbiology showing efficacy of a cGMP-produced phage cocktail in treating diabetic mouse wound infections caused by MRSA. They applied th

Here's a streamlined new method for producing phages (and removing endotoxin) for personalized phage therapy, published in Nature Protocols by Tiffany Luong (San Diego State University) and colleagues.

Edison Cano (Mayo Clinic, Minnesota) and colleagues at Adaptive Phage Therapeutics published a new paper in Clinical Infectious Diseases showing the successful treatment of a patient's infected prosthetic knee with phage therapy, allowing t

Oluwafolajimi Adesanya and colleagues, who make up a new team of phage researchers from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, just published their first review paper on phage therapy. The review also includes a unique perspective on phage th

Intralytix is recruiting patients for its Crohn's disease clinical trial out of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. They will be evaluating patient stool samples for presence of adherent invasive E. coli (AIEC), and if positive, patients will

We are urgently seeking Propionibacterium acnes phages for a patient in Europe. Ways to help at this stage: - By receiving the strain and testing your phages - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strain - By providing info

We are urgently seeking Propionibacterium acnes phages for a patient in Europe. Ways to help at this stage: - By receiving the strain and testing your phages - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strain - By providing info

Vitalis Phage Therapy This Sunday, Dr Vinod Kumar CS will share his expertise of 20yrs working w/ #Bacteriophage & #AMR on Ep. 8 of #AllAboutPhageTherapy! His recent studies include #PhageKinetics of #MRSA phages & #Phage as alternative to

Dr. Saima Aslam of IPATH in San Diego received funding from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to initiate and maintain a multicenter clinical cohort of cystic fibrosis patients and lung transplant recipients infected with Burkholderia cepacia

Yoon Hwang of the Naval Medical Research Unit in San Antonio received the Dr. Delores M. Etter Top Scientists and Engineers of the Year Award for his research into the development of a handheld device that uses phages to detect and identify