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Steffanie Strathdee San Diego, CA Want to help #phagetherapy patients? Our collaboration between @IPATH & @TAMU_CPT needs environmental samples for #phagehunts! You can help by sending soil samples to @TAMU_CPT. Message Steffanie Strathdee

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

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

Raniero Lorenzetti Rome, Italy Our group is looking to begin isolating and characterizing phages, first against fish pathogens, mainly at the molecular level. In the future, we will seek to exploit phages to control many animal pathogens. W

Steffanie Strathdee San Diego, CA Want to help #phagetherapy patients? Our collaboration between @IPATH & @TAMU_CPT needs environmental samples for #phagehunts! You can help by sending soil samples to @TAMU_CPT. Message Steffanie Strathdee

Prasanth Manohar I have completed my Ph.D. at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India. My research project deals with the characterization of bacteriophages infecting E. coli, K. pneumoniae and Enterobacter species. I have expertise

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

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 arti

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

Prasanth Manohar I have completed my Ph.D. at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India. My research project deals with the characterization of bacteriophages infecting E. coli, K. pneumoniae and Enterobacter species. I have expertise

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!

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

Review in Cell Host & Microbe by Kortright, Chan, Koff and Turner (Yale) on the history of phage therapy and why it is regaining interest as multidrug-resistant infections rise. It compares phage therapy with chemical antibiotics and their

We are urgently seeking Mycoplasma genitalium phages for a patient. Since phages against this pathogen are rarely studied, ANY help or advice on how to work with/isolate Mycoplasma phages is appreciated, even if you don't have phages or th

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Postdoctoral Scientist to provide high level scientific and technical support to a new project on phages as a One Health approach for the replacement of antibiotics, a

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Research Assistant to provide technical assistance to a team working on the use of phages as a One Health approach for the replacement of antibiotics, and reduction of

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Postdoctoral Scientist to provide high level scientific and technical support to a new project on phages as a One Health approach for the replacement of antibiotics, a