Giorgi Eliava Institute

41.73408333333344.772Koordinaten: 41 ° 44 '3 " N, 44 ° 46' 19 " W The Eliava Institute for phage research ( George Eliava Institute of Bacteriophage, Microbiology and Virology - IBMV ) is a bacteriophage Institute in Tbilisi, which as its precursor has a 1923 equipped bacteriological laboratory.

The Canadian Félix Hubert d' Hérelle and the Georgian microbiologist Georgi Eliava founded on the laboratory building (and also with the financial support of the Soviet government ) then 1936 ( Eliava ) " Bacteriophage Institute "; current director of the " Laboratory of Phages Morphology and Biology " Prof. Zemphira Alavidze.

As Eliava ran into an intrigue, he was arrested in 1937 and executed under Stalin's rule. D' Hérelle left Georgia and gave his scientific work on. While phage therapy in the subsequent period in Moscow and Breslau ( the local treatment center is operated by the Polish Academy of Sciences) was pursued, but in the west there was little interest and research, the Institute in Tbilisi developed in the absence of enough antibiotics to the center the Soviet bacteriophage research ( as part of the Georgian Academy of Sciences).

The Institute is existent even today; it should be employed technically in a very bad condition and there are about 50 people there. Before the dissolution of the USSR, there should have been 250 employees; " The heyday " were allegedly even in an outbuilding in 1200 workers in the phage production employed against diseases such as typhoid, blood poisoning or diarrhea.

Under the same address, the company JSC Biochimpharm under its Director, David Saralidze numerous bacteriophage in liquid and tablet form for phage therapy time since 2008 and for export. The Dutch company Micreos is under consultation forth with the Eliava Institute phage products for food safety.

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• Benedict John Hänggi. The phage therapy and the problem of their realization. Dissertation 2004 ( PDF; 1.9 MB)