Dr. Irene Chen is currently a faculty member at UCLA working on building the next generation phage therapy platform. If you are new to this field and want to catch up a bit, this is the right episode for you. On this episode, we'll talk about what phages are, what phage therapy is, what's the current state of art and much more. Besides the amazing science and technology phages are providing us, let's envision what really does phage therapy mean for our society. Yes, some of these stuff, you can learn about just from the other 10 podcast episodes on phage out there but it's simply better here.