'Medicine needed an alternative': How the 'phage whisperer' aims to replace antibiotics with viruses
"Both understood phages as medicinal agents, which the rest of the medical field viewed as nonsensical."
Lina Zeldovich
Science Journalist and Author
Lina Zeldovich is an award-winning author, speaker, and Columbia Journalism School alumna, and she has published stories in Popular Science, The New York Times, Smithsonian, National Geographic, Scientific American and more. One of her books, "The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health,” has been optioned for a TV series. Her book "The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost — and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail” was released from St. Martin’s Press in October 2024.
