Welcome back to Phage Therapy Today! As phage therapy is becoming global, so are funding opportunities. In this week's episode, our guests, Dr. Mercedes Gonzalez from Incubator for Antibacterial Therapies in Europe (INCATE) and Dr. Gregorio Iraola, at Kinzbio sat down with us to talk about these funding opportunities and how startup companies can benefit from them. Let's give it a listen!

Learn more about INCATE organization and opportunities at: https://www.incate.net/about-us/

Find out more about Kinzbio's Jumbo Phage technology at: https://www.kinzbio.com/

INCATE is organizing the 8th AMR Conference & phage workshop: https://amr-conference.com/program-2024/

Standardizing the phage therapy industry through processes like clinical trails is the way to go . One of the fundamental steps to broader use of phage therapy and successful therapy is producing phages following Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and JAFRAL is the leader in this field. In today's show we sit down with JAFRAL's founder and CEO Dr. Frenk Smrekar, a visionary who has been working on the development of GMP for bacteriophages throughout his whole career. Let's give a listen to his journey of founding the company and his observation and thought on the phage therapy field development through a GMP perspective.

Learning more about JAFRAL @https://jafral.com

A review paper on GMP in Phage Therapy by https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01161

As a serial entrepreneur, Johan Wikstroem founded a phage therapy company recently with one goal in mind, to treat his own Mycobacteroides abscessus infection and more people with conditions like himself. Listen in to this week's "Phage Therapy Today" and find out more about how our guest transitioned from tech to biotech and overcoming the hurdles in this process.

Find out more about tolka.ai @https://tolka.ai