The Story Behind the First Dedicated Phage Therapy Center in N. America - Steffanie Strathdee, PhD (Audio)

Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of California San Diego and co-director of the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH), shares how she and her colleagues, in 2016, revived a hundred-year-old forgotten cure – phage therapy - to save her husband’s life from a deadly superbug infection. The case led to a newfound interest in phage therapy, the launch of the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH), and the publication of Dr. Strathdee's memoir she wrote with her husband, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save her Husband from a Deadly Superbug. Dr. Strathdee also spoke about challenges and future prospects for phage therapy for CF patients. This presentation was part of CFRI's Virtual 35th National CF Education Conference on July 29, 2022.

CFRI's 35th National CF Education Conference was sponsored by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Genentech, Gilead Sciences, Chiesi USA, AbbVie, and Ionis Pharmaceuticals.