TEDxTbilisi - Revaz Adamia - Applied Aspects of Bacteriophages

Scientist, diplomat and politician Revaz Adamia describes the use of Bacteriophages in medicine and his institute's journey through the Soviet collapse to the present.

Revaz Adamia is the Director of the G.Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology, where he first started working as a scientific researcher in 1973. Between 1988 and 2006, he was Head of Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering. The G. Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology is a research institution under the Ministry of Science and Education of Georgia which studies bacteriophages and phage therapy.

Parallel to his research and work, Revaz has also had a long political career. Between 1992 and 2002, he served as a Member of Parliament in Georgia for three terms and held various leadership positions. In 2002, he was appointed as Ambassador to the United Nations and was the Chairman of the United Nations Disarmament Commission.

Revaz has a B.A., M.S., and Ph.D molecular biology from Tbilisi State University. In 1987, he served as a guest researcher at the Central Institute of Molecular Biology in Berlin, GDR.

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