Platform technology to control fungal diseases in different environments
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Fungal pathogens devastate agriculture
>80%
of crop diseases are caused by fungal organisms
Toxicity
Existing fungicides are often ineffective and can be toxic for humans and the environment
Advantages:
Uniphage’s fungicides are made to work in different environments
Our products have a significantly higher chance of in-field success. Long-term, this leads to more cost-efficient development and production of new solutions.
We're developing cutting-edge AI algorithms to enable our solutions to be more efficient
Our solution
Our technology will allow to faster develop bacteriophage-based solutions that will work in real-life settings even against rare bacterial pathogens
1 stage of technology development
Predict phage-host interactions
Advantages:
Quickly and precisely finding characterized phages that will work in-field, thus significantly reducing the chance of unsuccessful and expensive field trials
Using the same or very similar phages for a range of diseases, reducing regulatory hurdles
Little additional characterization is necessary
2 stage of technology development
Modify phage-host interactions
Advantages:
Precise change of desired phage characteristics to increase phage effectiveness and change hosts
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Team
Sofia Sigal-Passeck
founder and CEO | Biz Dev and Science
Sofia is a Yale-NUS alumna and a PI on an NSF SBIR grant. She is excited to use microbiology to build a safer and more sustainable world!
Sophia Xu is a recent graduate from the University of Texas at Austin. She has been involved in synthetic biology and phage research for 3+ years through leading the UT Austin iGEM Team and independent research grants. She is excited to expand her experience at Uniphage to create a more environmentally sustainable future!
Brendan is a graduate student studying epidemiology and bioinformatics at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is excited to use his background in bioinformatics and his new found knowledge in epidemiology to create a safer and healthier environment for all living things across the globe.
Intern SUmmer'22 - Business Development and Social Media
Betty is a third-year student at Yale-NUS College with a major in Economics and a minor in Environmental Studies. She hopes to use her skills in building a more environmentally sustainable future.