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PhD studentship with Martha Clokie and me at BeckyMayerCentreforPhageResearch . Part of larger CF Trust Hub led by @JoJofoth Selection of bacteriophages for therapeutic use in cystic fibrosis-associated Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections at University of Leicester on FindAPhD.com

HHS nominee RFK jr has reportedly said he would order NIH to take a break from funding infectious disease research “for about eight years” As anyone might, amid a H5N1 outbreak, post the arguably largest infectious disease pandemic in a century the-independent.com/news/world/ame…

Differences in US life expectancy are so large it's as if population lives in separate Americas instead of one 20+ yrs separates avg longevity of American Indian & Alaska Natives in western US (63.6) and Asian Americans (84.0) Read our The Lancet study thelancet.com/journals/lance…

I'm thrilled to welcome our new Stanford Infectious Diseases Fellowship fellows! We are so excited have such a talented group of physicians coming to join us next year. Stanford Medicine Infectious Diseases Stanford Department of Medicine

Big news! Tomorrow, Dec 12, CFR and The Lancet are hosting an event on US health at home & how it shapes US #globalhealth engagement abroad, with: richard horton Dr. Mona Victor Dzau National Academies Rebecca Bunnell PEPFAR Chris Murray Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Watch here! cfr.org/event/us-healt…

.@KevinMinyo6651 (Stanford University) etal published a paper on designing effective #phage-antibiotic cocktails against infections, showing that combining phages targeting different bacterial receptors can prevent resistance & effectively treat MDR infections buff.ly/49hWfhE

Excited to share our new publication! In collaboration with Tom Coenye's group, we reveal how the order of phage and antibiotic administration can impact therapy success against biofilms. Ergun Akturk Graça Pinto Luís Melo Joana Azeredo sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #phage #biofilms

Exciting update and developments for and within our BeckyMayerCentreforPhageResearch which will become the Becky Mayer Centre for Phage Research - we will be recruiting new staff early next year so please watch this space! le.ac.uk/news/2024/dece…

Am so proud of my daughter Ali for finishing her Eagle scout project - she and the other scouts in troop 4014 built a crafting table for the children's day care at First Congregational Church in Palo Alto. Go Ali! #BSA

Very excited to see this preprint from Jason Andrews on a method using phages to detect environmental pathogens - what a great idea! medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

🎙️New episode! We interview Paul Bollyky , MD, PhD, PI of the Bollyky Lab at Stanford Medicine. He shares insights on phage biology and its impact on the immune system!

Excited to show our recent review on phage therapy! Many thanks to Paul Bollyky Jessica Sacher, PhD JCI - Bacteriophage therapy for multidrug-resistant infections: current technologies and therapeutic approaches jci.org/articles/view/…

Congrats to Kevin Minyoung Kim and Jessica Sacher, PhD on their review of phage therapy production and drug development. It was great working with Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD, Jean-Paul Pirnay, Rob Lavigne, Gina Suh and the rest of the team on this project jci.org/articles/view/…

What does discovering a phage really feel like? Stanford undergrad Aaryan Harshith takes us on an adventure through history and now—perfect for a Sunday morning with coffee! phage.directory/capsid/tale-of… #undefined

Check it out - phages seem to cross the placenta from mom to fetus! Check it out here: insight.jci.org/articles/view/… Congrats to Jen Sequioia, Naomi Haddock and our terrific collaborators in the Winn Lab