Co-director of Centre for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics

Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences at UCSD

Steffanie Strathdee is a Canadian infectious disease epidemiologist who received her BSc in Microbiology and PhD at the University of Toronto. She is currently Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences and Harold Simon Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Diego where she also codirects the Centre for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH). She is also an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser and Johns Hopkins universities. In 2016, Strathdee and colleagues were credited with saving her husband’s life from a deadly superbug infection using bacteriophages –viruses that attack bacteria. The case, which involved cooperation from three universities, the U.S. Navy and researchers across the globe, shows how phage therapy is a future weapon against multi-drug resistant bacterial infections. For her efforts, she was named one of TIME magazine’s Most Influential People in Health Care in 2018.

Book signing on site with the keynote speaker Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, author of The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug. Pre-orders available (at registration or contact us).