📢 Exciting news! Ruby Lin & @GinaSuhMD are guest editors for a special edition International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents on the Global Landscape of #PhageTherapy. We invite early & mid-career researchers interested in phage biology/therapy & AMR to contribute! 🦠1/2

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Glad to share a brief look at my interview w/ NSW Medical Research about developments in #phagetherapy at Westmead, highlighting our research & the ongoing efforts to improve phage therapy outcomes. Thank you, #OHMR, for your continued support! medicalresearch.nsw.gov.au/how-research-i…

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Looks like we will have to change the first sentence of our grants now. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: a systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050 - The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance…

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Scotland has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13. statnews.com/2024/01/25/hpv…

We're delighted to announce Professor Emma Johnston AO (Prof Emma L Johnston AO FAA FTSE) has been appointed the 21st Vice-Chancellor of University of Melbourne. Professor Johnston, is the first woman to be appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University, commencing her new role in February 2025 →

RNA rules (again)! UNSW RNA Institute #NobelPrize goes to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptonal gene regulation.

And here's our new UZ Leuven standardized bench-to-bedside protocol to assess kinetics and dynamics of #Phagetherapy for #musculoskeletal #infections. #publication in Frontiers #Cellular and #infection #Microbiology frontiersin.org/journals/cellu… #PhageForce

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Our #AdvancedTherapeutics Biobanking Coordinator Carina Lauter presented a talk & a poster at #ABNA2024, Adelaide, 16-18 Oct 2024 on our effort at Phage Australia - Connect. Discover. Cure towards accessible #phagetherapy & advanced therapeutics Congratulations to Carina for winning the poster prize 🏆

This weekend Stephanie Lynch, PhD represented Phage Australia - Connect. Discover. Cure at #SanDiego International Film Festival discussing our #phagetherapy initiatives & showcasing EmmaWattsTV SBS Australia documentary - "Last chance to save a live" in 🇦🇺 Iredell Lab treated his first patient with #phage in 2007.

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A new bank of >2000 scientific/medical images and icons for free use in figures and presentations just released by NIAID News NIH. Very useful for early career researchers who can’t afford BioRender bioart.niaid.nih.gov

WIMR’s Dr Muhammad Kamruzzaman, Dr Alicia Fajardo Lubian, A/ Prof Sally Partridge and Prof Jon Iredell have been awarded $1,994,553 as part of the MRFF Global Health Initiative, for their research that uses Plasmid Therapy to manage antibiotic resistance. Read more:

🌍 It's World AMR Awareness Week #WAAW2024! We're excited to unveil our revamped website, phageaustralia.org & showcasing our documentary on #PhageTherapy as a powerful tool against antimicrobial resistance. Together, let's raise awareness and drive change! 💪✨ #AMR

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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