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PrecisionPhage raised €1 million from Nordic Science Investment, Genetricum and Unifund and secured €1.2 million in Deep Tech Accelerator funding from Business Finland, a €2.2 million seed round. The company develops bioinformatic tools for

A recent meta-analysis reveals that infections are a major (>50%) cause of non-relapse-associated deaths following CAR-T cell therapy.

PhageEU, a coalition founded by Proteon Pharmaceuticals (Poland), PTC Technology Center (Germany) and JAFRAL (Slovenia) that represents phages in industry, science and civil society, has registered as a non-profit organisation with its seat

The Alfred and Monash University collaboration had explored phage therapy for four patients by February 2024, with patients considered eligible only on compassionate grounds in Australia. The team described the approach as experimental. Alf

Atif Khan has created a Whatsapp channel for phage updates, providing researchers with the latest news and information about phages.

PHAXIAM Therapeutics and Vetophage, a Lyon-based company specialised in phage therapy for animal health, signed a long-term strategic research partnership to combine their expertise in discovering new phages and phage-derived proteins (endo

Australia’s The Project showcases new Phage Australia work on a new children's CF clinical trial using phages.

Researchers at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Federal University of Viçosa and University of Córdoba reported the phage UFJF_PfDIW6, which lyses Pseudomonas fluorescens affecting milk quality. The article says ICTV accepted the pro

ERYTECH Pharma shareholders approved the merger with Pherecydes at the June 23, 2023 combined meeting. The company was renamed Phaxiam Therapeutics. www.globenewswire.com

SNIPR Biome announced positive interim results from its Phase 1 trial of SNIPR001, a cocktail of four CRISPR-armed phages that targets E. coli, including antibiotic-resistant strains, in the gut. In 36 healthy volunteers (24 on three dose l

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics announces a collaboration and license agreement with the Israeli Phage Therapy Center at Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical Center. The agreement grants APT exclusive rights to make, use and sell licensed pha

KIU School of Pharmacy describes PhageTeam Uganda’s work exploring bacteriophages as biocontrol agents for selected bacterial diseases in poultry, aquaculture, clinical settings and plants; over a dozen pharmacy students are involved. news.

Prof Martha Clokie of the University of Leicester told The Guardian that experimental phage therapies need to be rapidly scaled up in the NHS to combat antibiotic resistance. She will direct the UK's first phage library, due to open at Leic

BiomX announced positive results from Part 1 of its Phase 1b/2a study of the BX004 phage cocktail in nine cystic fibrosis patients (seven on BX004, two on placebo) with chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection. There were no safety eve

News: The UK National Health Service (NHS) has hired its first clinical phage specialist! Read about the new role, accepted by Dr. Josh Jones, an infectious disease physician in Scotland who’s been treating patients with diabetic foot ulcer

Blog: Using viruses to treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections | National Institutes of Health (NIH).

News article: Rediscovering phages: ‘We finally have the tools to harness them’.

Amazing undergraduates!: Lindsey Shimoda, Satvik Kethireddy, Yingyi Zhu and seven other Ohio State iGem students were awarded gold for their work on creating an engineered phage therapy to combat sepsis – more specifically, the buildup of l

New phage therapy center: The ‘Center for Phage Biology and Therapy at Yale’ has been formally launched at Yale University to advance phage biology understanding, translate advancements into the clinic and provide training & education. Chec

Eawag researchers found that phages combined with chemical disinfection improved removal of pathogens from surfaces. Treatment outcomes differed by bacterial growth form; more than 99% of free bacteria and wet biofilms were removed, and app