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Twitter call-out from Barbara Brenner; phages-to-patients: We are looking for experts to draft (inter-)national guidelines on phage therapy for medical doctors and clinics treating all aspects from "who can get it" over "how is it to be app

The Temperton Lab at the University of Exeter (Exeter, UK) is seeking PhD students to develop a national capacity for adjunctive phage therapy to treat antibiotic-resistant respiratory infections through citizen science.

The Venturini group at the University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia) is seeking a PhD student to study phage therapy for non-typhoidal Salmonella infection.

Twitter call-out by Steffanie Strathdee, PhD: "If you live in Cambodia & want to participate in a phage hunt to cure superbug infections common in Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patients, contact me, Dr. Saima Aslam or IPATH at IPATH@health.ucsd.edu.

Jolien Onsea (University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium) and colleagues have published a study protocol in Viruses on phage therapy for difficult-to-treat infections. This article aims to address the scientific hurdles of phage therapy by using

The Iredell lab at the University of Sydney is seeking a PhD student to undertake research in phage therapy for intracellular pathogens.

For PHAVES #22 next week, Dr. Saima Aslam, MD (IPATH, UCSD, California) will present 'Clinical phage therapy: Learning from patients' on Sept 20 at 9AM Pacific! Hear about her experience in treating patients with phage and ask her all your

For PHAVES #22 next week, Dr. Saima Aslam, Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the Director of the Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Diseases service, will give talk entitled 'Clinical phage therapy: L

For PHAVES #22 next week, Dr. Saima Aslam, MD (IPATH, UCSD, California) will present 'Clinical phage therapy: Learning from patients' on Sept 20 at 9AM Pacific! Hear about her experience in treating patients with phage and ask her all your

Felix Biotechnology was awarded an NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant for $256,000 to further enhance their machine learning-based approach for engineering phage as a novel treatment for drug-resistant bacterial inf

Olivia Williams Barber (Northwestern University, USA) and colleagues published a minireview in mSystems on how the future of phage therapy will promote antimicrobial susceptibility. They examined bacterial resistance mechanisms, the current

For PHAVES #22 next week, Dr. Saima Aslam, MD (IPATH, UCSD, California) will present 'Clinical phage therapy: Learning from patients' on Sept 20 at 9AM Pacific! Hear about her experience in treating patients with phage and ask her all your

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT) has signed a licensing agreement with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research to gain access to its phage database. The deal is synergistic with APT's ongoing partnership with the US Navy.

Graham Hatfull (University of Pittsburgh) and colleagues published a new review in Annual Review of Medicine on phage therapy for antibiotic-resistant bacterial Infections. They conclude that given the strong safety profiles of phages, the

Daniel Gelman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and colleagues published a new paper in The Lancet Microbe entitled Clinical Phage Microbiology: a suggested framework and recommendations for the in-vitro matching steps of phage therapy. This

San Diego, California The Pride Lab at the University of California, San Diego is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to investigate the role of bacteriophages as members of the human microbiome and to assist in the efforts to identify bacterioph

San Diego, California The Pride Lab at the University of California, San Diego is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to investigate the role of bacteriophages as members of the human microbiome and to assist in the efforts to identify bacterioph

Dr. Chip Schooley is leading an International Antiviral Society-USA webinar on phage therapy Aug 17 at 10AM. This is designed for clinical decision makers actively involved in HIV care and research, including physicians, physician assistant

Ameneh Khatami (The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and University of Sydney) and colleagues published a new paper in EMBO Molecular Medicine on bacterial lysis, autophagy and innate immune responses during adjunctive phage therapy in a chi

Rosanna Wright (University of Manchester, UK) and colleagues published a preprint on how functional diversity increases efficacy of phage combinations. Their findings suggest that functional diversity is the key to effective phage combinati