| Benjamin Chan | |
| Birth Place: | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Workplaces: | Yale University |
| Known For: | Phage Therapy |
Benjamin K. Chan is a research scientist at Yale University in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.[1] He was born in 1980 to a U.S. Asian father, an engineer, and an American mother. He is known for his work in phage therapy exploiting genetic trade-offs to treat antibiotic resistant bacterial infections. He currently lives in Guilford, Connecticut.
In January 2016, Chan treated an antibiotic resistant infection of a Dacron aortic graft caused by the superbug Pseudomonas aeruginosa,[2] 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 cystic fibrosis[3] [4] [5] and the research involved was featured in the Netflix series, "Follow This." He has since been featured in documentaries produced by Vice,[6] Freethink, and BBC One.[7] Following the publication of his first two cases, Chan and others have since treated multiple infections at Yale New Haven Hospital successfully.[8] [9]