UltraRare The Podcast

Jocelynn Pearl

A podcast at the intersection of science and web3. Learn about the builders behind the decentralized science movement.

Episodes

  1. 04/12/2022

    Phage Directory: How a Decentralized Network of Researchers Find Cures

    It started with a tweet. A 25 year old woman named Mallory was suffering from an infection that had failed all antibiotic treatments. A researcher named Dr. Steffanie Strathdee was using Twitter to hunt for the impossible - a scientist somewhere in the world who might have the right phage - a virus that infects bacteria - that could save this patient. When Jessica Sacher (a phage researcher) showed her friend Jan Zheng (a UI/UX developer) the tweet, the idea for Phage Directory was born. A simple, elegant solution to a global problem. Phage Directory started as a list of phage researchers and a newsletter called Capsid & Tail. To date, it has facilitated multiple phage cures, grown a global community of researchers who hold potential treatments for future drug-resistant infections, and built a model for discovery research from benchtop to bedside, N-of-1 cures. Jan and Jessica are making the leap to Australia to further their mission with Phage Directory and help build a safety net on a country-wide scale for these types of infections. Get inspired by the progress that Jan, Jessica, and their research community has made for cures of drug-resistant infections through a global, decentralized network of researchers. This is an UltraRare x VitaDAO collaborative podcast. Thank you for listening. Website: https://phage.directory/ Guest Twitter: https://twitter.com/JessicaSacher https://twitter.com/yawnxyz Jessica Sacher BLOG https://jessbio.substack.com/ Hosted by Jocelynn Pearl https://twitter.com/JocelynnPearl VitaDAO is the world’s first decentralized intellectual property collective, funding and commissioning research into human longevity. Participate in the VitaDAO community! ⇛ Website : https://www.vitadao.com/ ⇛ Discord: https://discord.gg/vitadao ⇛ Telegram: https://t.me/vitadao ⇛ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vita_dao Timestamps 00:00 Intro. 1:07 Intro of Phage Directory co-founders 2:13 How the idea of Phage Directory came about? (Jessica Sacher) 4:57 Background and experience in tech (Jan Zheng) 8:40 The first successes with Phage Directory 12:04 How does the alert to cure process look like? 16:20 The bottlenecks in the process 18:58 The process of putting together Phage Directory 23:41 Community onboarding 29:40 How is Phage Directory monetized? 33:28 The business model of Phage Directory 35:13 Why is Australia a good place for phage Directory? 40:28 Phage Directory strategy 43:15 Ways to access the information about the Phage Directory process 44:50 The relationship between the co-founders 46:17 Web 3 space and Phage Directory 53:00 The options of becoming a DAO 54:14 The vision for Phage Directory for the next 5 to 10 years 1:03:00 Ways to support the mission 1:04:56 How big is the network? 1:07:00 How to get involved and be part of the community? 1:11:25 Closing

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A podcast at the intersection of science and web3. Learn about the builders behind the decentralized science movement.