As many reflect on the past couple of years of the pandemic and start to think about emerging threats of the future, it’s important to bring awareness to that very topic, the future, and what’s on the horizon in public health. This episode focuses on the emerging threat of antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic resistant infections, which have been deemed by The World Health Organization as one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity. During the episode we’ll discuss the cutting edge technologies that can help tackle the challenge.
This episode’s guest is Rob McBride, PhD, Co-Founder and CEO of Felix Biotechnology, a technology focused on accelerating the deployment of novel biotherapeutics targeting urgent microbial challenges in human health and beyond. The Felix mission is founded on creating an evolutionary solution to the evolutionary problem of antimicrobial resistance.
The company name pays homage to Félix d'Hérelle, a French-Canadian microbiologist who was known as the discoverer of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) and experimented with phage therapy.
Rob has a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Science from Saint Vincent College in addition to a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University. Prior to founding Felix, Rob was the Co-Founder of Boost Biomes, which used the powerful social networks among microbes to provide novel, sustainable solutions to feed and heal people everywhere.
For more details visit TechLink Health @ https://www.techlink.health or connect with Felix @ https://www.felixbt.com/.
This episode was hosted by Justine Reiss and Dr. Rodney Samaan.
The episode unpacked many concepts related to Programmable Therapies such as Programmed Phage and also referenced an influential read on the topic:
📗 The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug.
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