Phage problems?
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Phage Contamination and Troubleshooting
Personalized medicine for your bioprocesses.
Cell Bank testing
Rapid detection of phage contaminants in your strains.
Phage production and characterization
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Phage Consultants

Contamination problems? We solve them.

Phage contaminations threaten fermentation processes based on bacterial activities and pose a serious risk to companies relying on such bioprocesses. We help companies to fight and prevent bacteriophage contamination in bioprocesses – by offering facility audits, consultations, personnel training, advice on bioprocess optimization and SOP improvement, and new facility development, as well as routine and as-required sample testing.

Our team of expert scientists working in state-of-the-art laboratories are ready to solve all your bacteriophage problems. See below what we can do for your company!

Our experience at your disposal

Phage contamination and troubleshooting

See how we can help your company deal with phage problems

Phage production

Phage production and purification to high titers

Phage characterization

Whether a contaminant or a valuable tool, we will characterize any bacteriophage

Cell bank testing

Make sure your cell banks are contaminant-free at competitive prices

Contract research

See what tailored phage research can offer your company

Other

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News

We had pleasure to participate at Microbiome Connect USA in Boston. A two-day event, opening November 16, was a great opportunity to discuss about the importance of bacteriophages in microbiome. Dr. Los gave a lecture about the aspect of testing strains for the presence of phages and prophages as an important, although formally not required,
Phage Consultants was part of Pomorskie Region of Poland team in the Integrated Pharma (ICSE) Zone at CPhI in Frankfurt. We are very happy that we could talk about our offer, including methods for bacteriophage detection in difficult bacterial strains, contamination control and phage-based medicines development services. Phage Consultants was participating in CPhI for the
At the end of October we had pleasure to participate at Microbiome R&D & Business Collaboration Forum in Miami. This conference was an opportunity to present our newly expanded service portfolio, but also to talk about cell bank tests, contamination control and prevention for microbiome projects. Phage Consultants was participating in this event for the
Phage Consultants will be exhibiting at CPhI Worldwide 2021 in Milan as part of the Pomorskie Region of Poland team in the Integrated Pharma (ICSE) Zone, at Booth 11H54. Visit us to find out more about our newest offer!
We will exhibit our bacteriophage detection technologies at DUPHAT from Booth 4C20, as part of the Pomeranian Region of Poland stand that showcases the most promising pharmaceutical and biotech companies of the region.
Producing bacteriophages is not easy, but Phage Consultants has you covered. We receive client samples contaminated with unknown bacteriophages on a daily basis, and often, in order to characterize the contaminant and subsequently remove it and prevent its reappearance, isolation of a bacteriophage and its production are required.
Phage Consultants will attend the upcoming online ISBioTech Waterside conference, with our CEO Dr. Marcin Los delivering an invited speaker talk: Crouching T1, Hidden DE3 – how lysogeny, pseudolysogeny and hibernation may camouflage phages in the process.
Given the COVID-19-related travelling restrictions, including recent closure of Japan to European visitors, PC was forced to reluctantly withdraw our registration for the next month’s INTERPHEX Week Tokyo meeting.
As the interest in bacteriophage-based technologies as an alternative to antibiotics in fighting microbial infections rises, Phage Consultants presents a short guide to phage testing and phage therapy and their potential medical uses.
In a recently published study, PC has contributed its bacteriophage expertise to promising research highlighting potential use of phage proteins as building blocks for nanoscale protein materials, which can in turn be used as drug or vaccine carriers of clinical importance.
A short guide prepared by Phage Consultants describes what are bacteriophages, how they have been studied, and why they are of interest to researchers and businesses.
Phage Consultants explored exciting new opportunities for enhancing dietary supplements with phage therapy at its debut apearance at the latest SupplySide West congress in the USA.
Phage Consultants successfully promoted its distinctive expertise and technologies for combating bacteriophage contaminations in fermentation processes at the latest RAFT™ fermentation technology conference in Florida, USA.

Customer Testimonials

  • Aldevron manufactures plasmid DNA for research, clinical, and commercial applications. It is essential that our processes remain free of bacteriophage contamination. We rely on Marcin and his team at Phage Consultants to prevent such infections. Phage Consultants is by far the world’s most qualified consulting group in this area. Their expertise is unsurpassed and their dedication to customer service is outstanding. They have helped Aldevron with host cell selection, new facility design, and the development of screening methods to test incoming plasmid samples. This allows us to provide a higher level of service and security to our clients. Bacteriophage contamination is a very important issue to the field of biological manufacturing. It is important for life science CMOs to have a partner like Phage Consultants to ensure product and process integrity.

    Michael Chambers

    CEO, Aldevron
  • MetGen can highly recommend Phage Consultants as reliableand highly efficient consultants. The project was performedsmoothly, within agreed budget and resulted in significantimprovement in the way how our pilot fermentation facilityoperates.

    Alex Michine

    CEO, MetGen
  • I had the opportunity to work with Phage Consultants on a project that my company had in Bazancourt, France. The project consisted in the manufacturing of bio-based succinic acid using an E.coli production system. With the help of Phage Consultants, we conduced an audit of the production facility to identify potential issues related to bacteriphage contamination, and from that audit we developed a phage prevention plan. Phage Consultants did a remarkable job and we were able to prevent phage contamination. They are very professional, efficient and most importantly trustworthy. I highly recommend them for any problems related to phage contamination

    Laurent Bernier Ph.D., P.Ag.

    Senior Vice President, Bio Amber
  • Marcin is one of the finest person I have known in some time. His domain expertise is par excellence, his ability to deliver results on time is commendable and more over, he is ever ready to help, always prompt in response and smiling always! Professionally and personally, it was a great experience to work with him.

    RNDr. Vyasa Williams Rajasekar, Ph.D

    Former Head – Biotech Research & Business Development at Fermenta Biotech Limited
  • The team at Phage Consultants have always provided prompt, scientifically reliable data and have always been available when a conversation was necessary. This has allowed us to ensure that we have not had any phage contamination incident since we started working with them. We are therefore happy to recommend their work to anyone.

    Max Rossetto

    Head of Business Development at Luina Bio
  • I have personally worked in 2016 with Marcin Los and his company Phage Consultants in solving phage contamination issue in one of our service provider’s facility. His actions and the help provided by company helped our contractor to get rid of recurrent contamination and to restore production according to Marcin’s recommendations. Since then, our service provider was able to deliver product of interest in a reliable manner and the problem did not re-occurred. I can recommend co-operation with Marcin and his company Phage Consultants, as they showed to be very effective and professional in solving phage outbreak problem and in providing a long-term prevention solutions.

    Durgaprasad Annavajjula

    Sr. Vice President, Stelis Biopharma