645260 external_news 1615496807 1615496807 The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded $2.5 million in grants to 12 institutes around the world to support research on bacteriophage therapy. These awards represent NIAID’s first series of grants focused exclusively on research on this therapy, an emerging field that could yield new ways to fight antimicrobial-resistant bacteria.  Sam Brown, professor in the School of Biological Sciences, will serve as principal investigator for a proposal that will build re-usable phage and antibiotic treatments via exploitation of bacteria-phage co-evolutionary dynamics

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