The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save her Husband from a Deadly Superbug, Book Launch & Lecture

Date and Time: 19 November 2019, 6pmAdd to Calendar 19/11/2019 18:30 19/11/2019 20:00 Asia/Kolkata The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save her Husband from a Deadly Superbug, Book Launch & Lecture Must check for Details and on Event day before visiting -
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Event Description: The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save her Husband from a Deadly Superbug

Launch of a book co-authored by Steffanie Strathdee and Tom Patterson

Chief Guest: Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, South-East Asia Region, World Health Organisation

Followed by a lecture

Speaker: Prof. Steffanie Strathdee, an infectious disease epidermiologist, renowned for her research on the intersection of HIV and drug use. She is Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences & Harold Simon Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego

Chair: Prof. Balram Bhargava, Secretary, Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research

Dr. Strathdee will present the case study of her husband, Dr. Tom Patterson, who was stricken with a pan-resistant bacterial infection and was rescued with intravenous phage therapy as well as others who have been similarly treated successfully in other countries

Panel Discussion: Charting a Path Towards Bacteriophage Therapy

Chair: Prof. Balram Bhargava

Discussants: Dr. Steffanie Strathdee; Dr. Thomas Petterson, Professor of Psychiatry, School of Health Sciences, University of California, San Diego; Dr. Sanjay Chhibber, Professor, Department of Microbiology, Panjab University and President, Society for Bacteriophage Research and Therapy, India; and Prof. Randeep Guleria, Director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Moderator: Dr. Urmi Bajpai, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Science, Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi and Co-creator, International Bacteriophage Research Consortium

Collaboration: Open Health Laboratories Systems; and The International Bacteriophage Research Consortium

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