Sudipta Mondal is a postdoctoral research associate at Scripps Research in San Diego, where he studies how phages interact with bacteria. He obtained his PhD from the CSIR–Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad.
As antibiotics increasingly fail against dangerous bacterial infections, a century-old solution from the past, bacteriophage therapy, is making a comeback. India’s vast phage diversity offers a rare…