Pharmacology/ Therapeutics News for December 2018

Pharmacology/ Therapeutics News Archive

Award for Phage Therapy: Phagomed Wins Austrian Entrepreneurship Award Phönix Award for Phage Therapy: Phagomed Wins Austrian Entrepreneurship Award Phönix

Vienna, 4 December 2018: Vienna-based Biotech company PhagoMed Biopharma GmbH was yesterday awarded the Austrian Entrepreneurship Award Phönix 2018 in the category “Start-Up International”. The Phoenix award honours the development of antibiotics alternatives based on phages, a class of natural viruses that only infect bacteria, at the Vienna Biocenter. A distinguished jury selected PhagoMed as a Phoenix laureate and the award was presented jointly by the Austrian Minister of Digital and Economic Affairs and the Austrian Minister of Education, Science and Research during a prize ceremony in Vienna.