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Benjamin K. Chan () is a research scientist at in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He was born in 1980 to a U.S. Asian father, an engineer, and an American mother. He is known for his work in exploiting genetic to treat antibiotic resistant bacterial infections. He currently lives in Guilford, .


Phage therapy
In January 2016, Chan treated an antibiotic resistant infection of a Dacron aortic graft caused by the superbug Pseudomonas aeruginosa, this treatment reinvigorated phage therapy in Western medicine. Following this successful treatment, a second case of superbug infection was treated by Chan and others at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. This case involved use of nebulized phage to treat a multidrug resistant lung infection in Paige Rogers, a woman with and the research involved was featured in the series, "." He has since been featured in documentaries produced by , Freethink, and . Following the publication of his first two cases, Chan and others have since treated multiple infections at Yale New Haven Hospital successfully.

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