TEDxTbilisi - Revaz Adamia - Applied Aspects of Bacteriophages
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- Scientist, diplomat and politician Revaz Adamia describes the use of Bacteriophages in medicine and his institute's journey through the Soviet collapse to the present.
Revaz Adamia is the Director of the G.Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology, where he first started working as a scientific researcher in 1973. Between 1988 and 2006, he was Head of Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering. The G. Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology is a research institution under the Ministry of Science and Education of Georgia which studies bacteriophages and phage therapy.
Parallel to his research and work, Revaz has also had a long political career. Between 1992 and 2002, he served as a Member of Parliament in Georgia for three terms and held various leadership positions. In 2002, he was appointed as Ambassador to the United Nations and was the Chairman of the United Nations Disarmament Commission.
Revaz has a B.A., M.S., and Ph.D molecular biology from Tbilisi State University. In 1987, he served as a guest researcher at the Central Institute of Molecular Biology in Berlin, GDR.
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From Eliava website: "Dr. Revaz Adamia, Director of the G. Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology passed away on March 4th, 2014. It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Dr. Revaz Adamia, Director of the Eliava Institute over the past 8 years. Revaz (Rezo) began working at the Institute in 1973 as a young researcher in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, where he distinguished himself as a scientist and administrator, rising to become head of the Institute from 1988 to 2006. In the tumultuous times following the breakdown of the Soviet Union and the independence movement in Georgia, Rezo moved to politics in 1992. He was elected Member of Parliament of Georgia three times (1992-2002), serving as a Chairman of the Defense and Security Committee, Chairmen of the Georgian Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, and Vice-President of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He actively participated in the Georgia-Russia negotiations. He was a principal figure in the Georgia-Russia negotiation. The decision on how to stage the withdrawal of Russian troops was based on his recommendation of a course of action. From 2002 to 2006, he was an Ambassador, the Permanent representative of Georgia to the United Nations and Chairman of the UN Disarmament Commission. In 2006 he returned to become the Director of the Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology and President of the Not-for Profit Eliava Foundation - Association for the development of Bacteriophages. Dr. Adamia was a distinguished intellectual in both the biological and the political sciences, authoring more than one hundred publications on biology and bacteriophages, as well as politics and international relations. In his spare time, Revaz Adamia was an accomplished mountaineer and an enthusiastic skier, in which capacity he set up a network of skiing schools for children throughout Georgia."
Phages from this Georgian Institute helped my overcome a multi-drug resistant prostatitis infection. The time to right for phage therapy to come into mainstream medicine as antibiotics are proving less and less effective due to growing problem of drug resistance. And unlike antibiotics which tend to have many adverse side effects, phages had no adverse side effects for me.
That is just totally amazing.
My son suffers from Cystic Fibrosis and is always fighting bacteria like Staph, Pseudomonas, Stenotrophomonas and C.Diff.
The difference this could make to all people with CF would be truly amazing.
You should contact the Eliava Institute directly at their website, www.eliava-institute.org and I know they will find a way to help him. You can also contact the Phage Biotics foundation at www.phagebiotics.org to get information on how to get help here in the US (assuming that is where you are).
Hi Matthew, I am in Australia and have been in contact with phage therapy centre in Georgia.
Thanks for your comment :-)
Hi Carol, have you treated your son with phage therapy?
Hi Carol, have you treated your son with phage therapy?
hi carol how did you go?i live in aus too and I am extremely sick with many infections like staph etc due to immunodeficiency.just wondering did thye help and sell you some phages?i have not heard back from them yet.
I was just thinking the other day that bacteriophages would be the perfect alternative to antibiotics the other day and when look it up found out that I was more or less right, the weird thing though is that this research has been around for ages. Work on it began in the late 1800s I think and the Soviets made frequent use of this, which brings me to the big question. Why haven't we done this yet? antibiotics are becoming unreliable from overuse, they are damaging to humans in high amounts and they are expensive so why haven't we switched over? we have ALL of the technology needed to do this, hell it would give bioweapons workers from the cold war something to do with their expertise so why haven't we done it. My theory is that it comes down to money and the pharmaceutical companies, who produce antibiotics and make money off them.
I'm proud that you are georgian. It's incredibly interesting and impressive! Thank you for such a meaningful information
A fascinating line of research. I'm glad that someone is still pursuing it.
Georgia keep up the great work.
We love you in the netherlands.
რეზო, მომენატრა მისი დანახვა და მოსმენა.. ეს სიმშვიდე და ჭკვიანი იუმორი.. რა კარგია, რომ ეს კადრები შემორჩა ინტერნეტს.
can we buy phages straight from the Georgia institute?i live in Australia and they don't sell them here which is wrong.
yes you can buy it, in georgia they are freely sold .
We are in the midst of Lyme epidemic which is extremely resistant for antibiotics! Why anybody hasn't thought to use bacteriphages to treat Lyme yet ? !
Madloba
6:30 well technically viruses aren't alive, at least not by current definitions of life.
true, they need a host. and i'm sure by alive they had them checked on a particular host.
I'm sure these have military applications. just imagine a whole population of them attached to neurons.