22.- Expert opinion on phage therapy | Round table from the First International Symposium on Advances in Phage Therapeutics

We are sharing one of the sessions of the 1st International Symposium on Advances in Phage Therapeutics that was held in Braga, Portugal during the month of June. You will hear a round table focused in challenge and frontiers for phage therapy.Martin Loessner from ETH Zúrich, moderating the discussion with Rob Lavigne, from KU leuven, Jean Paul Pirnay and Sara Djebara from Queen Astrid Military Hospital and Mzia Kutateladze from Eliava Phage Therapy Center.

Topics such as: clinical improvement vs bacterial eradication, phage and antibiotic combination or resensitation, is it more important to have 2-3 really good phages or a big collection that you can go to?, can we move from a simplistic reductionist to a systems, more complex view?, what is the advantage of using phage mixtures?, is AI the way forward?, what should be the future of phage therapy?, is phage resistance necessarily a bad thing, if used long-term?,should there be last-resort phages?, do we need to train phages?, What about engineering bacteriophages? These and much more in this hour of conversation packed with food for thought! Enjoy!

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