In another presentation, Dr. Patrick Grossmann, CEO & co-founder of Invitris GmbH, discussed the topic of “The Great Silent Pandemic: Antibiotic Resistance”. He outlined the problem posed by the increasingly widespread resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. However, there is hope that a class of viruses called phages may be able to kill even highly resistant bacteria. According to Grossmann, his start-up company Invitris has now found a way to synthetically produce these phages in a highly scalable and pure form, allowing the phages to be produced in large quantities and tailored to specific germs.
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