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We are urgently seeking Citrobacter freundii phages (and phage manufacturing capacity) for a patient in the USA. Ways to help at this stage: - By preparing clinical-grade phage preparations for this patient (one phage already identified,

We are urgently seeking Burkholderia cepacia phages for a patient in the USA. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strain - By receiving the strain and testing your phages - By helping spread t

We are urgently seeking Burkholderia cepacia phages for a patient in the USA. Ways to help at this stage: - By sending your phages for testing on the patient's strain - By receiving the strain and testing your phages - By helping spread t

Vitalis Phage Therapy In the fifth episode of All About Phage Therapy, we talked with Dr Aradhana Vipra, head of microbiology and Dr Jagadeesh Bhat, senior scientific manager at India's first phage research company, GangaGen Biotechnologies

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics and the Mayo Clinic have announced a collaboration to commercialize a phage susceptibility test. The test will enable rapid identification of patient-specific phages for therapy (based on screening hundreds of ca

Charlotte Brives (CNRS, France) and Jessica Pourraz (Université de Bordeaux) published an anthropologist's take on the field of phage therapy. This paper digs into how the way we think about and develop antibiotics continues to inhibit phag

Ronen Hazan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and colleagues at the Hadassah Medical Center have been awarded an Israel Precision Medicine Partnership grant to pursue their phage therapy program. So far they've banked 300 phages and have tre

The Faculty of Biology and Medicine and the Lausanne University Hospital (Lausanne, Switzerland) are hiring a senior lecturer in the field of phage therapy / bacteriophages.

Could phage therapy target bacterial meningitis? Christian Møller-Olsen (University of Warwick, UK) and colleagues have shown that phage K1F can infect E. coli within cerebral endothelial cells without eliciting an inflammatory response. Th

Jean-Paul Pirnay (Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Belgium) lays out a vision for what personalized phage therapy might look like in the year 2035. His vision coincidentally also happens to lay out much of Phage Directory’s own roadmap!

Register for an upcoming virtual event on AMR and the requirement for a new business model for antimicrobials, hosted by members of European Parliament (June 4 at 12pm CET). Includes a talk by Jean-Paul Pirnay (Queen Astrid Military Hospita

Vitalis Phage Therapy In the 4th ed. of #AllAboutPhageTherapy we're honored to have Dr Elizabeth 'Betty' Kutter live in discussion. Lovingly referred to as “The First Lady of #PhageResearch”, Betty is one of the most experienced & respected

Register for an upcoming virtual event on AMR and the requirement for a new business model for antimicrobials, hosted by members of European Parliament (June 4 at 12pm CET). Includes a talk by Jean-Paul Pirnay (Queen Astrid Military Hospita

Check out these two new phage-related podcast episodes: Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, Co-Director of the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH) discusses AMR on "This Podcast Will Kill You", and "The Bio Report" talks

Evgenii Rubalskii (Hannover Medical School) and colleagues published a new paper in Antibiotics presenting their findings on using phage therapy to treat critical infections related to cardiothoracic surgery. They showed that phages (in com

For some interdisciplinary research news, Rachel Yoon Kyung Chang, Philip Chi Lip Kwok (University of Sydney) and colleagues published a new paper in Bioengineering and Translational Medicine on the stabilization mechanism of inhalable phag

Mahboubeh Soleimani Sasani & Fereshteh Eftekhar (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran) published a new paper in Current Microbiology discussing the findings from their phage therapy study to treat lobar pneumonia infection induced by Klebsiella

For some interdisciplinary research news, Rachel Yoon Kyung Chang, Philip Chi Lip Kwok (University of Sydney) and colleagues published a new paper in Bioengineering and Translational Medicine on the stabilization mechanism of inhalable phag

Mahboubeh Soleimani Sasani & Fereshteh Eftekhar (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran) published a new paper in Current Microbiology discussing the findings from their phage therapy study to treat lobar pneumonia infection induced by Klebsiella

Vitalis Phage Therapy In the 4th ed. of #AllAboutPhageTherapy we're honored to have Dr Elizabeth 'Betty' Kutter live in discussion. Lovingly referred to as “The First Lady of #PhageResearch”, Betty is one of the most experienced & respected