Developing Human Infection Models in a Test Tube

Webinar with Professor Marvin Whiteley, Ph.D

This webinar with Professor Marvin Whiteley, Ph.D. — Co-Director of the Emory–Children’s Cystic Fibrosis Center, Professor at the School of Biological Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Founder and CSO of SynthBiome Inc — explores how well pre-clinical models reflect human infections.

He discusses current approaches used to study antibiotic resistance and tolerance, and strategies to improve model relevance through the development of advanced test-tube (in vitro) infection models, illustrated with examples from cystic fibrosis research.