Major funding boost for phage therapy

Major funding boost for phage therapy


Photo of NSW Government funding boost announcement for phage therapy.

Patients with difficult-to-treat bacterial infections across NSW will soon have better access to limb and life-saving therapy known as phage therapy. 

A $3.5 million funding boost announced by the NSW Government will help urgently address an ongoing global manufacturing bottleneck in delivering phage therapy.

Bacteriophages or ‘phages’ are viruses that selectively infect bacteria and can kill them. Phages were first discovered over a century ago but due to... read more.

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