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Phages for Global Health's president, Dr. Tobi Nagel, has been selected as 1 of 22 Fulbright Global Scholars in this year's cohort! Funded by the US Congress, Tobi’s project will help establish phage regulatory systems in Africa and Asia b

UC San Diego's Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH) is launching the Phage Therapy Clinical Support Fund to increase accessibility to phage therapy for patients worldwide who require compassionate use of phages.

On a new episode of the Accelerating Success podcast, Dr. Steven Theriault discusses how regulatory hurdles in Canada hinder access to innovative animal health products, leading Cytophage Technologies to decide against bringing their produc

Phage.ai has developed a Python package! PhageAI is an AI-driven software platform for prediction of phage lifecycle and taxonomy, providing valuable insights into phage characteristics and protein structural classes classification. Try it

If you are using iPHoP for phage host prediction: a new update has just been released (1.3.3), alongside an updated host database now based on GTDB r214. Updated code and database available via conda / Docker. Report any issues here.

BiomX announced positive results from their Phase 1b/2a trial evaluating BX004, a P. aeruginosa phage cocktail, in cystic fibrosis patients. They saw clinical improvement in pulmonary function and reduced bacterial burden, paving the way fo

Tired of doing plaque assays? Check out the Bollyky lab’s new method to count phages and assess their bioactivity using a DLS Particle Size Analyzer, now published in PNAS. Great tweet thread here!

A recent multi-specialty survey in the United Kingdom revealed substantial demand and willingness among clinicians to use phage therapy in appropriate cases.

Baptiste Gaborieau (Université Paris Cité, France) and colleagues published a new preprint on predicting diverse phage bacteria-interactions at the strain level from their genomes only. They created a matrix of >38k phage-bacteria interacti

In a new article for The Microbiologist magazine, Jessica Sacher reflects on her experience helping set up systems (like Phage Directory and Phage Australia) to make phage therapy more accessible. She comments on shifting phage therapy perc

Phage Research Progress Assessment for Collective Funding Application Dear Phage Research Community, We invite you to participate in this brief survey to assess the current state of phage research in various labs. Your valuable insights w

Abstract submissions are OPEN for #VoM2024 Meeting in Cairns, Australia! Join us July 15-19, 2024 to explore the expanding frontiers in virology. Check the website for details & to submit an abstract, & watch the video invitation to get eve

Call for Organizers: VoM 2026! The ISVM invites enthusiastic members to organize the Viruses of Microbes 2026 conference, #VoM2026. Submit your application by April 30, 2024, to board@isvm.org. Be at the forefront of this exciting conferenc

iVoM Season 3, the ISVM’s webinar series, kicks off this December with its first session on "Ecological & Functional Roles of Viruses in Contrasting Environments." Mark your calendars: Dec 12, 2023, 8 PM CET.

Phage Oxford 2024, the longest running phage conferences series in Europe, and the second longest running phage conference globally, will be held on 02-03 September 2024 as a ‘virtual/in-person’ hybrid event at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, UK.

The Sustainable Microbiology journal has a themed collection focused on phage diversity and contributions to improving animal, environmental, and human health. Submit your research by January 1, 2024.

Oxford Silk Phage Technology, in collaboration with the University of Exeter and the University of Hertfordshire, has been awarded 2 million British pounds via a new Collaborative Innovate UK Biomedical Catalyst grant. The funds will accele

Fagofarma, a Czech microbiological and pharmaceutical company, has been authorized by the Czech State Institute for Drug Control to produce GMP phages for clinical use, making it the second Czech company to do so.

Justin Boeckman (Center for Phage Technology, Texas) and colleagues published a protocol detailing methods for phage DNA extraction, genome assembly, and genome closure.

Erez Yirmiya (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) and colleagues analyzed groups of closely related Bacillus phages that showed differential sensitivity to bacterial defense systems, and discovered four distinct families of anti-defense