Phage therapy 101

Registration and draft program coming soon

This practically oriented one-day course is designed for those prescribing bacteriophage therapy or considering doing so.

Sessions will cover diagnostics (with a strong emphasis on genomics), quality assurance and batch production assessments and dispensing, clinical trial and regulatory aspects, current experience in regard to pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, clinical experience with phage therapy in humans and the co-adaptation of phages and bacteria in vivo.

The course is designed to support doctors, nurses and pharmacists by providing the necessary knowledge base for safe delivery of therapeutic phages. The faculty includes clinicians with extensive hands-on experience in adult and paediatric medicine and will be delivered on line and in person at Westmead.

Sessions will include;

Biology & Biotech 

Basic PK/PD, receptors, defences and adaptations 
From diagnostics to production QC 
High-throughput genomics for advanced therapeutics 
Practical bioinformatics for phage therapy 

Delivering phage therapy 

Health Economics/ SROI 
Biobanking and GMP 
NSW pharmacy and TGA guidelines 
Handling GMO phages: a Pharmacy perspective 
Phage delivery at home and in hospital 
Inflammatory responses 

Clinical experience 

Current experience, including QAMH, STAMP 
staph aureus: ABSA01, diSArm 
pseudomonal infection, incl. CF and non-CF 
Case 4: (CM42) in vivo evolution 
STAMP 2.0, SABRE Phi and future trials