As many reflect on the past few years of the pandemic and continue thinking about emerging threats of the future, it’s important to bring awareness to that very topic, the future, and what’s on the horizon in public health. Today’s episode is Part 3 of a series that focuses on the emerging threat of antimicrobial resistance, which has been deemed by The World Health Organization as one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity. The episode digs deeper into innovations happening globally to help defeat superbugs and evolve the applications of Phage Therapy as well as deepening connectivity to the broader healthcare community.
This episode’s guest is Jessica Sacher, PhD, a Canadian Phage Microbiologist and Co-Founder of Phage Directory as well as Phage Australia. The Phage Directory goal is founded in helping doctors find phage scientists willing to share their phages to rescue patients dying from antibiotic-resistant infections. Phage Directory is now the global phage community's central source of news & connectivity that supports thousands of phage professionals, from 80+ countries, helping clinicians source phages for their patients while also helping organizations manage, grow, and learn from their phage collections.
Listen in with us as we continue to explore this evolving science and how it's innovations will continue to create alternative paths to treat a variety of health conditions as told from scientists that are influential in the space.
Other topics range from the significance of climate change as a contributor to emerging human viruses, to how gene editing technologies are helping to evolve precision medicine and designer therapies, to the future of phage applications across a range of practical applications.
For more details visit TechLink Health on the web or connect with Jessica and Phage Directory @ Phage.Directory or 📩 Email.
This episode was hosted by Dr. Sarah Samaan.
The episode points to several references with links below:
📚 Capsid & Tail: A Weekly Phage Periodical
🧬 Locus Biosciences: Next generation CRISPR technology for programmed cell death
🌐 Climate change will result in new viruses and risk of new diseases
🌐 Phage Therapy To Defeat Superbugs Is Taking Off @ Forbes
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