# Steffanie Strathdee

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The Billion Dollar Question

Transcript available at: https://bit.ly/4laEQfa  AMR is a problem with a plethora of solutions...and plenty of barriers to reach them. In this episode we look at the role innovation can play – innovating new antibiotics, relatively unexplored treatments and preventing infection in the first place.…

Babbage: How to battle superbugs with viruses

Antimicrobial resistance killed over a million people in 2019. That figure is expected to rise to ten million by 2050. Antibiotics remain vital to modern medicine, but this hidden pandemic of drug-resistant superbugs is driving scientists to explore possible alternatives. One type of therapy in par…

Babbage: Viruses, lords of creation

These tiny, ancient predators do more than cause pandemics. Host Kenneth Cukier and science editor Geoff Carr investigate how viruses have shaped the world. Evolutionary biologist David Enard explains how viruses have driven human development. And Jennifer Doudna, who pioneered CRISPR gene editing,…

Not Just a Phage

We’re hurtling towards a post-antibiotic world, as the overuse of antibiotics has given rise to dangerous drug-resistant bacteria. Can we fight back using viruses as weapons? An obscure medical therapy uses certain viruses called bacteriophages to treat infection. For a century attempts to turn pha…

Science Couple Phages Out Superbug

Medical researcher Steffanie Strathdee needed to save the life of her husband, researcher Tom Patterson, when he contracted one of the world's worst infections. She turned to phage therapy: using a virus to kill the bacteria. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matters Microbial #62: Should I Stay, or Should I Go—How Bacteriophage are Released from Host Cells

Matters Microbial #62: Should I Stay, or Should I Go—How Bacteriophage are Released from Host Cells October 23, 2024 Today, Dr. Jolene Ramsey, of the Biology Department of Texas A&M University and Affiliate of the Center for Phage Technology, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how bacteriophages r…

Show 1407: Battling Superbugs with Nature’s Viral Warriors

This week, we consider whether viruses might be able to overcome bacterial infections that resist all antibiotics. We start with a thrilling story from a few years ago in which a scientist saved her husband’s life with bacteriophages. Then we turn to a journalist who grew up in Russia where bacteri…

Not Just a Phage

We’re hurtling towards a post-antibiotic world, as the overuse of antibiotics has given rise to dangerous drug-resistant bacteria. Can we fight back using viruses as weapons? An obscure medical therapy uses certain viruses called bacteriophages to treat infection. For a century attempts to turn pha…

Phage is the Rage: Bacteriophage Therapy for CF

In this episode, Ahmet Uluer, DO, MPH, Andrea Gavin Becker, and Lauren Harvey explore one of the most talked-about emerging therapies in cystic fibrosis care: bacteriophage therapy. They’re joined by Steffanie Strathdee, PhD, infectious disease epidemiologist, co-founder of UC San Diego’s Center fo…

Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir Audiobook by Steffanie Strathdee

https://libranovo.com/free Listen to free audiobooks with a 30-day free trial! Title: Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A MemoirGenres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Biology & ChemistryAuthor: Steffanie StrathdeeNarrator: Christine Lakin, D…