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Last chance to register for the 3rd Bacteriophage Therapy Summit, March 23-25! Accelerate the discovery and translation of bacteriophage research into targeted therapeutics that demonstrate clinical efficacy with expert speakers from FDA, B

Fatma Abdelrahman (Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt) has launched a new webpage for Women in Phage in collaboration with Phage Directory. The new organization aspires to create a community where all phage scientists — and partic

PHAGE: Therapy, Applications, and Research journal is currently seeking manuscripts for a special issue with a dedicated focus on Phage Informatics and AI. The special issue will focus on all aspects of computational analysis and applicatio

The Oxford Bacteriophage Conference — Phages 2021 will be held (most likely) virtually Sept 7-8, 2021. The conference will showcase phage research and applications in medicine, food, and biotechnology. The conference is chaired by Prof Mart

Rafal Mostowy (Jagielloński University, Poland) asked for a list of top 10 phage-related articles, which can be used as a part of an introductory course to new students working on phages. Comment with your list of papers on Twitter!

NIAID has awarded $2.5 million in grants to 12 institutes around the world to support research on phage therapy! These awards represent NIAID’s first series of grants focused exclusively on research on phage therapy. Congrats to all recipie

PhagePro Inc., a Boston-based phage biotech company, is pleased to announce that it recently received a total of $3 million under an NIH Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant and an NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT) announced that the FDA has accepted its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for PhageBank™ phage therapy for the treatment of Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis (DFO). This is the third successful IND appli

Enea Maffei (University of Basel) and colleagues published a preprint on their systematic exploration of a new panel of 66 Escherichia coli phages, which is now available for the community. They designed the collection to be used as a refer

Brandon Berryhill (Emory University) and colleagues published a research article exploring potential efficacy of a phage seemingly ideal for combined phage and antibiotic treatment. Although the phage PYO^Sa is able to kill S. aureus at hig

Fazal Mehmood Khan (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and colleagues published a research paper on a novel endolysin isolated from an Acinetobacter baumannii phage with high antibacterial activity against multiple gram-negative microbes. The nov

Later this month, leading drug developers, academics and clinical researchers will come together at the 3rd Bacteriophage Therapy Summit to address their translation challenges, from characterization of phages through to clinical developmen

PHAVES #13 will be a seminar with Prof. Jonathan Iredell, MBBS, PhD of the Westmead Institute for Medical Research and University of Sydney on Wed, March 10 at 8AM AEDT (Tues, March 9 at 4PM Eastern Time/10PM CET). He will give a talk entit

The Texas Medical Center (TMC) Digestive Diseases Center 12th Frontiers in Digestive Diseases Symposium “Phages, Viruses, and Digestive Diseases” will take place Saturday, March 6, 2021, 8 am CST – 1:45 pm CST. Event Organizers: Mary K. Est

Thanks to all who attended 2021 Phage Futures Congress last week! The conference conducted a Young Researchers Poster Competition, and announced the four finalists on the last day. Congratulations to: - Carmen Gu Liu (Baylor College of Med

We are in search for Pseudomonas aeruginosa phage PaP3, it was described by Fuquan Hu’s lab but myself and Prof. Gino Cingolani haven’t received a reply from them. Hope you can help us find this prophage or a similar one to this and LUZ24 (

BCM TAILΦR Labs (Tailored Antibacterials and Innovative Laboratories for phage (Φ) Research) and a team of their collaborators was awarded a 7.5 million dollar U19 grant by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Congrats

Martin Jahn and colleagues recently published an interesting paper on the lifestyle of phages of marine sponges by host prediction and correlative microscopy. They used a new correlative in situ imaging approach (‘PhageFISH-CLEM‘) to locali

Luis Camarillo-Guerrero (Wellcome Sanger Insititute) and colleagues published a paper on the prevalence of viral diversity in the human gut, along with a new Gut Phage Database (142,809 non-redundant gut phage genomes from 28,060 metagenome

Few have explored how phages affect bacteria associated with winemaking. Cécile Philippe (University of Bordeaux, France) and colleagues published a new paper in Frontiers in Microbiology on the characterization of the first virulent phages