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The University of Liverpool is hiring a PhD student to optimize phage therapy for cystic fibrosis lung infections by studying biofilms and phage-host dynamics.

New phage book alert! Lina Zeldovich announced that her new book, "The Living Medicine," is out today, described by reviewers as “unputdownable” and compared to "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," making it a must-read for those interes

NIAID has announced a new $6M funding opportunity to establish Centers for Accelerating Phage Therapy to combat ESKAPE pathogens. This is the first major NIH phage therapy-specific center-level grant. By this time next year, 2-3 phage ther

Mihály Koncz (HUN-REN Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary) and colleagues combined phylogeographic analysis with phage typing to guide precision phage therapy, showing that a few carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii strain types domina

Researchers at Queen's University Belfast and University College Dublin found that combining cold plasma-activated water with phage vB_PmiS_PM-CJR reduced biofilm-embedded Proteus mirabilis cells by about 4 log, as a possible option for cat

Phaxiam (Lyon, France) is a phage therapy biotech company always looking for motivated talent. Interested? Send them an open application and let them know!

This Week in Virology (TWiV) recorded a special live podcast episode at the 2024 Viruses of Microbes meeting in Cairns, Australia. Hosts Vincent Racaniello and Jolene Ramsey interviewed phage researchers Krystyna Dabrowska and Rob Lavigne a

A team at Singapore General Hospital has initiated individualized phage therapy for their first patient!

William Summers has authored a new review on how the Cold War geopolitical climate in the US contributed to the decline of phage therapy, while it thrived in Eastern Europe.

This Week in Virology (TWiV) recorded a special live podcast episode at the 2024 Viruses of Microbes meeting in Cairns, Australia. Hosts Vincent Racaniello and Jolene Ramsey interviewed phage researchers Krystyna Dabrowska and Rob Lavigne a

A 75-year-old female patient with recurrent Pseudomonas septicaemia and arterial stents was treated using a phage–meropenem combination therapy at Tampere University Hospital, Finland. A 3-phage P. aeruginosa cocktail was given IV together

A phage cocktail targeting Yersinia pestis provided ~88% post-exposure protection in a rat model of pneumonic plague!

A new first in human phase 1 randomized, double-blind trial of Intralytix's ShigActive™, a Shigella phage preparation, shows it is safe and well tolerated when orally administered.

Why isn’t phage therapy a thing yet? What’s taking so long? I’m super excited to share our new podcast, Podovirus. This is a new experiment. I wanted a (better?) excuse to have in-depth conversations with some of my favorite phage people,

Why isn’t phage therapy a thing yet? What’s taking so long? I’m super excited to share our new podcast, Podovirus. This is a new experiment. I wanted a (better?) excuse to have in-depth conversations with some of my favorite phage people,

David Pride, Douglas Conrad (UC San Diego) and Daria Van Tyne (University of Pittsburgh) received a $1,487,500 research grant from Emily's Entourage, a CF nonprofit to launch a phage clinical trial for combatting CF infections.

Tea Glonti (Queen Astrid Military Hospital) and colleagues published a new paper on designing therapeutic phage cocktails based on naturally occurring phage groupings. They transferred naturally occurring phage groups directly from their so

Joshua Jones (UK Phage Therapy, University of Edinburgh) and colleagues have provided guidelines for assessing patient suitability for unlicensed phage therapy in the UK, showing clinical and microbiological considerations for local clinica

A hydrogel loaded with a phage cocktail and vancomycin gave a 99.72% reduction in MRSA biofilm in vitro and maintained activity for eight days. In vivo, the co-delivery hydrogel with systemic antibiotic reduced bacterial load by 0.99 log10

Tolka AI Therapeutics (now backed by Khosla Ventures!) is a biotech startup in Miami, Florida focused on developing phage therapy for M. abscessus infections. Tolka is hiring a Microbiology Intern to assist in phage hunting and developing t