Jessica Sacher, PhD
Phage Directory (Co-founder); Stanford University (Staff Scientist); Bollyky LabI'm a co-founder of Phage Directory and have a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Alberta (I studied Campylobacter phage biology).
For Phage Directory, I help physicians find phages for their patients, and I'm always trying to find new ways to help the phage field grow (especially through connecting people and highlighting awesome stuff I see happening in the field).
I spent 2022-2024 as a postdoc in Jon Iredell's group at Westmead Institute for Medical Research in Sydney, Australia, helping get Phage Australia off the ground. I helped set up workflows for phage sourcing, biobanking, diagnostics, production, purification and QC of therapeutic phage batches, and helped build data collection systems to track everything we did. We treated more than a dozen patients in our first year, and I'm so proud of that!
As of 2024, I joined the Bollyky lab at Stanford University as a Staff Scientist, where I'm focused on building the Stanford Center for Phage Pharmaceuticals. The ‘Phage Pharm’ will be a home for innovative phage pharmacodynamics and phage-immune interactions research, with a focus on translating findings directly to the bedside and back to the bench.
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- Special issue: An update on our current phage crowdsourcing campaignTo provide a window into what happens during a phage hunt, we're devoting this issue to showing some of what's happened over the last three weeks. We've put together an infographic to help illustrate how labs across the globe have come…
- Happy (American) Thanksgiving!We’re incredibly humbled by all the wonderful feedback and for your help in spreading the word about Capsid & Tail and Phage Directory. Thank you!!
- Reflecting on our first yearFor this week’s issue, we’d like to reflect on our first year as Phage Directory. We’re one year old this week!
- Phage crowdsourcingThis is the second post in a series on how patients are being treated with phages outside of traditional clinical trials.
- "The eIND route”: How do people currently get phage therapy in the US?This is the first of a series of posts about how patients are being treated with phages outside of traditional clinical trials.
- Clinical trials: Are phages “there yet”?You may have heard that phages "still haven’t made it through clinical trials.” What does this mean, and is anyone making any progress on this? Do you have experience with or knowledge of clinical trials? If you have anything to add,…
- Phage therapy returns to the USWelcome to the first issue of Capsid & Tail, a mini-periodical of links, topics, and commentary that covers the ins and outs of the phage world.