ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Amid the antibiotic resistance crisis, the century-old practice of phage therapy, the use of bacterial viruses to treat bacterial infections, has gained renewed attention. Despite extensive research and clear-cut advantages over antibiotics, phage therapy has yet to gain momentum. This is primarily due to remaining limitations, e.g., the time-consuming process of identifying suitable phages and limited in vivo efficacy. With PHAGE-PRO I propose a new technology to overcome the shortcomings of traditional phage therapy. Unlike the conventional use of lytic phages, I will capitalize on prophages – viruses that integrate into bacterial genomes capable of excision and replication. By…
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