Maggot therapy and maggot-based therapeutics
Environmental Futures Seminar - Dr Frank Stadler
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UOW Wollongong 32-G01
Maggot therapy is the use of living fly larvae of the greenbottle blowfly Lucilia sericata and other blowfly species to treat chronic wounds. Applied to the wound, medicinal maggots consume dead tissue, control infection, and promote wound healing.
How come that a group of universally reviled creatures such as blowflies should have such potent medicinal properties? To answer this question, Dr Stadler will explore the natural and clinical history of blowflies and maggot therapy and outline the therapeutic principles underpinning the therapy. He will conclude the seminar with the latest cutting-edge developments in maggot-based therapeutics development.
About the presenter
Dr Frank Stadler is an Adjunct Fellow at the Department of Applied BioSciences, Macquarie University, and Director and Founder at MedMagLabs, a for-purpose startup aiming to develop maggot therapy supply chain solutions for affordable maggot therapy here in Australia and across the global South. Dr Stadler edited and co-authored A Complete Guide to Maggot Therapy, the most comprehensive book to date on maggot therapy.