Illustration by Ben Darby from Life in Our Phage World by Forest Rohwer, Merry Youle, Heather Maughan, and Nao Hisakawa
The Phage Foundry is an interdisciplinary capability building a high-throughput platform for rapid design and development of countermeasures to combat emerging drug-resistant pathogens.
Research
At its current rate, the rise of antimicrobial-resistant infections is predicted to paralyze our industries and healthcare facilities while becoming the leading global cause of loss of human life. The Phage Foundry platform integrates in-depth, multi-scale characterization of phage-host molecular interactions with high-throughput isolation, phage-host coevolution, machine learning, and engineering design principles to enable rapid development of targeted phage-based therapeutics against antimicrobial-resistant pathogens.
Illustration by Ben Darby from Life in Our Phage World by Forest Rohwer, Merry Youle, Heather Maughan, and Nao Hisakawa
Illustration by Ben Darby from Life in Our Phage World by Forest Rohwer, Merry Youle, Heather Maughan, and Nao Hisakawa
Team
We have brought together multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional expertise to develop the Phage Foundry platform.
News
Read more about Phage Foundry research highlights and external news relevant to the work being conducted at the Phage Foundry.
Illustration by Ben Darby from Life in Our Phage World by Forest Rohwer, Merry Youle, Heather Maughan, and Nao Hisakawa