"The Genesis Story" and Progress in Phage Therapy with Dr. Steffanie Strathdee at UCSD IPATH

In today's show, we sit down with Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, whose family story of saving her husband's life from a life-threatening superbug infection using phage therapy really inspired a lot of the most important works today in the phage therapy field. Listen to today's episode to learn about her story. Among her many roles, as the director of the 'Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics' at UC San Diego, Dr. Strathdee also get to help us understand the scope of power we have today in our field and much more...

Dr. Strathdee and her husband shared their story in their memoir "The Perfect Predator: A Scientists's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug", which can be found @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H282CPT?ref=KC_GS_GB_US

Their story has also recently been spread nationwide through CNN @https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/health/phage-superbug-killer-life-itself-wellness/index.html

Find out more about UCSD IPATH and their resource @https://medschool.ucsd.edu/som/medicine/divisions/idgph/research/center-innovative-phage-applications-and-therapeutics/people/Pages/default.aspx

Happy listening!