It started with a tweet. A 25 year old woman named Mallory was suffering from an infection that had failed all antibiotic treatments. A researcher named Dr. Steffanie Strathdee was using Twitter to hunt for the impossible - a scientist somewhere in the world who might have the right phage - a virus that infects bacteria - that could save this patient. When Jessica Sacher (a phage researcher) showed her friend Jan Zheng (a UI/UX developer) the tweet, the idea for Phage Directory was born. A simple, elegant solution to a global problem. Phage Directory started as a list of phage researchers and a newsletter called Capsid & Tail. To date, it has facilitated multiple phage cures, grown a global community of researchers who hold potential treatments for future drug-resistant infections, and built a model for discovery research from benchtop to bedside, N-of-1 cures. Jan and Jessica are making the leap to Australia to further their mission with Phage Directory and help build a safety net on a country-wide scale for these types of infections. Get inspired by the progress that Jan, Jessica, and their research community has made for cures of drug-resistant infections through a global, decentralized network of researchers.

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Website: https://phage.directory/

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https://twitter.com/JessicaSacher

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Jessica Sacher BLOG

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Hosted by Jocelynn Pearl

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Timestamps

00:00 Intro.

1:07 Intro of Phage Directory co-founders

2:13 How the idea of Phage Directory came about? (Jessica Sacher)

4:57 Background and experience in tech (Jan Zheng)

8:40 The first successes with Phage Directory

12:04 How does the alert to cure process look like?

16:20 The bottlenecks in the process

18:58 The process of putting together Phage Directory

23:41 Community onboarding

29:40 How is Phage Directory monetized?

33:28 The business model of Phage Directory

35:13 Why is Australia a good place for phage Directory?

40:28 Phage Directory strategy

43:15 Ways to access the information about the Phage Directory process

44:50 The relationship between the co-founders

46:17 Web 3 space and Phage Directory

53:00 The options of becoming a DAO

54:14 The vision for Phage Directory for the next 5 to 10 years

1:03:00 Ways to support the mission

1:04:56 How big is the network?

1:07:00 How to get involved and be part of the community?

1:11:25 Closing

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