Steffanie Strathdee will share the details of her family’s story and discuss ethical issues related to treating bacterial infections with viruses, when the drug is ‘alive.’

Tuesday | 5

Join us for a fun night of reading the play with our leader Patrick McBride!

As You Like It Shakespeare Reading, Part 1

Join the San Diego Shakespeare Society for a night of reading this comedy with Patrick McBride. McBride has worked as a professional actor at Shakespeare festivals and theatres around the country. He has spent the last two years touring with Intrepid for their Shakespeare education tour and playing the fool for the San Diego Shakespeare Society’s stage reading of King Lear.

When: Tuesday, January 5, 5 pm to 7 pm

Where: sandiegoshakespearesociety.org

Wednesday | 6

Steffanie Strathdee will share the details of her family’s story and discuss ethical issues related to treating bacterial infections with viruses, when the drug is ‘alive.’

When The Drug Is Alive

In 2016, Dr. Strathdee was involved in a case in which she and her colleagues revived a hundred-year-old forgotten cure — bacteriophage therapy— that saved her husband’s life from a deadly superbug infection. Since then, UC San Diego faculty have used intravenous phage therapy to successfully treat superbug infections in over a dozen other compassionate-use cases, and have been the first to use a genetically modified phage cocktail. Strathdee will share the details of her family’s story and discuss ethical issues related to treating bacterial infections with viruses — when the drug is "alive."

When: Wednesday, January 6, 5:30 pm to 7 pm

Where: ethicscenter.net