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Andrei Bolocan and colleagues from APC Microbiome, the University College Cork and the Teagasc Food Research Centre in Ireland have published a new review evaluating the prospects of E. faecalis phage therapy. They've categorized phages wit

Phage Futures (January 29-30, 2019) is a translational phage therapy conference where Steffanie Strathdee, Tom Patterson, the FDA, and others will discuss how we move phage therapy forward in the US. Registration is open to all - use code “

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics has partnered with Yale University to manufacture and supply phages for use in Yale's upcoming clinical trials.

IPATH has just received FDA approval to start its first clinical trial! This will be the first US trial involving intravenous (IV) phage treatment, and will be a collaboration with Ampliphi Biosciences.

CBC has provided a Canadian perspective on phage therapy (and there's a Quirks and Quarks radio show linked in the article!)

Dr. Saima Aslam and colleagues at IPATH / UCSD School of Medicine and Ampliphi Biosciences report on their use of IV phage therapy to treat biofilms associated with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs). This is now a protocol guiding cli

Mt. Sinai Hospital in NYC is now recruiting patients for a randomized, controlled, double-blind, Phase 1/2a phage therapy trial. The goal: test the safety and efficacy of Intralytix's EcoActive phage collection on intestinal AIEC (adherent

Ampliphi Biosciences just published new pre-clinical data on its anti-Staphylococcus aureus phage cocktail.

A perspective on phage therapy as an anti-superbug option in India.

Cell Host & Microbe just released a special issue devoted to phages!. This includes four free featured reviews, one of which is this article by Kaitlyn Kortright, Benjamin Chan, Jonathan Koff and Paul Turner of Yale University, where they d

Fernando L. Gordillo Altamirano and Jeremy Barr from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia have published a new review: Phage Therapy in the Post-Antibiotic Era. Their paper includes a nice timeline of phage therapy history and a beauti

Dr. Benjamin Chan of Yale University continues his treatment of patients in need with phages. Most recently, his phages were administered to a 26-year-old woman named Ella Balasa from Richmond, Virginia, who traveled to Yale for treatment.

Check out our new paper on sourcing phages for compassionate use, which was published in the journal Microbiology Australia last week!

"As a specialist in infectious diseases, I have been interested in phage therapy as long as I can remember, but only recently have I felt comfortable saying this out loud." - Dr. David Pride, UCSD. Read more about his perspective in this ar

If you know anyone who hasn't heard Tom and Steffanie's story yet, here's an in-depth podcast interview with them on the Super Awesome Science Show that you can share. It also goes into phage use in the livestock industry in an interview wi

Texas A&M University is a major hub of phage research, and the Center for Phage Technology there is the only state-funded phage research center in the US. Learn about the center and their involvement in Tom Patterson's phage therapy case he

Marco Cafora and colleagues have developed a zebrafish model of cystic fibrosis and used it to show that phage therapy can treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa (and modulate immune response in the fish). This is the first time that phage therapy ha

The 2019 Evergreen Bacteriophage Meeting, taking place Aug 4-9, 2019 in Olympia, Washington, is now open for registration! If you work with phages, this iconic biennial (once per 2 years) meeting is not to be missed! *COMING SOON: We're he

We're less than two weeks away from another exciting translational phage conference! The Bacteriophage Therapy Summit will take place in Boston, Massachusetts March 25-27, 2019. The meeting will focus on the discovery, translation and acce

TU Delft has just opened a new phage library (Fagenbank) for phage therapy. If you have phages you'd like to see used in medical treatments, reach out to Fagenbank by email at fagenbank@tudelft.nl. This library is an initiative by Dr. Stan