Big Picture Science – Phage Therapy
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Click above to listen to part 2 of Battling Bacteria, featuring Steffanie Strathdee, Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences and co-founder of the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics at the University of California, San Diego, and Tom Patterson, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. Together they co-authored “The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug,” and here they describe Tom’s life-or-death struggle with anti-biotic resistant bacteria and how a virus saved his life.