Phage Australia - Connect. Discover. Cure
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We are a network of scientists & clinicians providing phage therapy. Professionalising phage therapy as the third major intervention for infectious diseases
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One of the major problems facing humanity is the inability to treat bacteria that make us sick. Prof Martha Clokie and her Centre for Phage Research team are studying bacteriophages to combat this growing issue. #CitizensOfChange | #AMRAwarenessWeek | #AMR | BeckyMayerCentreforPhageResearch
New nature A mechanism for why durable weight loss is so difficult: epigenetic memory of fat cells nature.com/articles/s4158… Ferdinand von Meyenn Laura Hinte
🌍🦠 To celebrate #WAAW2024, I'm excited to share a few highlights from last week: 🚀 Phage Australia - Connect. Discover. Cure, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research achieved the quickest phage product delivery yet, helping our youngest patient to date! (1/4)
🎓 Clare Fisher and I had the privilege of speaking to students at Parramatta Marist High School about careers in STEM, phage therapy, and AMR. It's an honor to inspire the next generation to pursue science! (2/4)
We’re delighted to announce that Sharon Lewin AO has been reappointed as Director of the Doherty Institute until 2029! A global leader in infectious diseases and HIV research, her leadership has driven remarkable achievements, including during the COVID-19 response.
📢 Historic day for Portugal and phage therapy! 🇵🇹 A framework was approved, allowing magistral preparation of personalized phage products. 🙌 Grateful to Jean-Paul Pirnay, my group Azeredo Lab Portuguese patients, and doctors who signed a petition inspired by the Belgium model.
Joana Azeredo Azeredo Lab This is amazing news... Let's get this moving all throughout Europe
Wonderful news from Joana Azeredo. The magistral personalized phage therapy framework will now be approved in #Portugal. Great collaborative work #Belgium 🇧🇪 and #Portugal 🇵🇹 to help patients. We hope more countries will push to adopt this. Jean-Paul Pirnay Azeredo Lab
On December 11 we will be discussing the potential of #bacteriophages in fighting #AMR in the European Parliament at an event kindly hosted by Tiemo Wölken 🇪🇺 MEP. You can follow the debate online- more info on our website: phageurope.eu/2024/11/27/upc…
🎶 With weeks to live, musician Paul Laszlo found hope in cutting-edge #phagetherapy, Iredell Lab successfully treating a severe chest infection. Thanks to innovative research, he's now thriving and back on stage! 💪✨ Read his inspiring story: medicalresearch.nsw.gov.au/how-phage-ther…
Policy in practice: Cystic Fibrosis Australia and Phage Australia surveys: understanding clinical needs and attitudes towards phage therapy in the cystic fibrosis community academic.oup.com/sumbio/article… Phage Australia - Connect. Discover. Cure The Westmead Institute for Medical Research Cystic Fibrosis Aust Stephanie Lynch, PhD Holly Sinclair
We hope everyone is having a great first day at #CRISPR2025! As Peter Fineran mentioned there are lots of great eateries 🧑🍳 and bars 🍸 located along the Avon river - great for dinner plans tonight.
This week was the 1st publication using our immune cell sequencing to accurately make medical diagnoses. It has enormous implications, as I've reviewed here (link in profile). Science Magazine Scott_Boyd_Lab_Stanford Maxim Zaslavsky Anshul Kundaje (anshulkundaje@bluesky)
