Center for Innovative Phage Applications

and Therapeutics

Leadership Team

Saima Aslam, MD

Leadership Team

The Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH) was founded in the UC San Diego School of Medicine in June 2018 with seed funding from UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla. Our goal is to pursue, through collaboration with researchers, companies and institutions around the world, new treatments for combating antimicrobial resistant diseases—focusing on bacteriophage (phage) therapy. We have treated and will continue to treat patients with life-threatening multi-drug resistant infections with phage therapy through the FDA’s compassionate use program. We also strive to advance phage therapy into clinical trials so that it can be rigorously evaluated and if proven efficacious, become more widely available to combat the global superbug crisis.

Connie Benson, MD

Leadership Team

Ana Cobian, PhD

Postdocotral Fellow

Rob Knight, PhD

Leadership Team

Affiliates

Steffanie Strathdee, PhD

Co-Director

Research Team

Katrine Whiteson, PhD

Affiliate Member

Chip Schooley, MD

Co-Director

David Pride, MD PhD

Leadership Team

Andrew Garcia

Senior Research Associate

1) Dwayne Roach, PhD - March 27, 2019, at UCSD

2) Chip Schooley, MD - April 24, 2019, at SDSU

3) Graham Hatful, PhD - May 29, 2019, at UCSD

4) David Pride, MD PhD - June 26, 2019, at SDSU

5) Katrine Whiteson, PhD - August 28, 2019, at SDSU

6) Vincent Fischetti, PhD - September 25, 2019, at UCSD

7) Justin Meyer, PhD - October 23, 2019, at SDSU

8) Forest Rohwer, PhD - November 20, 2019, at UCSD

9) Paul Bollyky, PhD - January 29, 2020, at SDSU

10) Rob Edwards, PhD - February 26, 2020, at UCSD

11) Betty Kutter, PhD - September 21, 2022, at UCSD

12) Daria Van Tyne, PhD - January 11, 2023 at UCSD

13) Joe Bondy-Denomy, PhD - February 15, 2023 at UCSD

14) Austen Terwilliger, PhD - March 15, 2023 at UCSD

15) Breck Duerkop, PhD - April 19, 2023 at UCSD

Prior Speakers