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We're excited to announce that we've been awarded a grant from the Mozilla Foundation in partnership with Phages for Global Health (PGH), a nonprofit organization that facilitates the application of antibacterial phage technology in the developing world.

This grant will support the digitization of PGH's hands-on phage workshop teaching materials. During this time when PGH is unable to deliver in-person workshops due to the coronavirus pandemic, this online resource should be especially valuable, and we are grateful to the Mozilla Foundation for their timely support!

Phage Directory has started building a website for the course, and PGH's workshop instructors will soon be depositing lecture videos, laboratory demonstration videos, experimental protocols, scientific papers on phage topics, and frequently asked questions. All of this material will be freely available to anyone in the world, and we are designing the website so that it will be more easily accessible to people in resource-limited countries where internet bandwidth is often reduced.

We plan to launch this online resource in December — stay tuned! (Read more in PGH's newsletter here!)