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 鈥榩hages鈥� are viruses that selectively infect bacteria and can kill them. Phages were first discovered over a century ago but due to...

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