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Tasked with helping solve the greatest public health emergency of our time, a group of Marymount University students proved themselves to be more than up to the challenge.<\/p>\n

Seventeen Marymount Saints, led by Biochemistry<\/a> Professor Dr. Amanda Wright<\/a>, entered the Small World Initiative\u2019s sixth annual Do Something about Antibiotics Challenge<\/a> during the Fall 2021 semester. After pursuing antibiotic research and hosting three events on campus to raise awareness about the antibiotic crisis, the team was notified earlier this month that it won one of the few available prizes from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)<\/a>. As part of their prize, participating students had the opportunity to attend a NIH career webinar to explore potential careers available within and beyond the nation\u2019s medical research agency. They will also receive signed certificates from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)<\/a> and the Chief Medical Advisor to the President.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur judges found your entry to be incredibly engaging and creative, and thought that it proved to be a powerful educational tool for your community,\u201d wrote Erika Kurt, President and CEO of the Small World Initiative<\/a>. \u201cNow, more than ever, it is incredibly important to promote good behaviors to reduce the risk of transmitting infectious diseases and to share when and how to best use antibiotics. Thank you for using your creativity to be part of the solution!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Marymount students participating in a \u2018Paint and Sip\u2019 event to raise awareness about the antibiotic crisis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Do Something about Antibiotics Challenge is a collaboration between the Small World Initiative, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)<\/a>, the NIH, the Sociedad Espa\u00f1ola de Microbiolog\u00eda<\/a> and other partners to raise awareness about the dangers of antibiotic resistance \u2013 when bacteria stop responding to the drugs designed to kill them. This is primarily caused by inappropriate antibiotic use, as antibiotics should only be prescribed for bacterial infections<\/a> \u2013 treating viruses such as the common cold, flu or COVID-19 with antibiotics increases the possibility of antibiotic resistance, which places everyone at risk from even mild infections.<\/p>\n

Known as \u201csuperbugs,\u201d they cause more than 2.8 million illnesses and 35,000 confirmed deaths each year just in the U.S. alone, according to the CDC \u2013 and due to underreporting, the real annual death toll domestically is estimated to be more than 153,000. Superbugs are also believed to be complicating the COVID-19 pandemic, as initial studies show that most COVID patients are prescribed antibiotics even though the overall proportion of bacterial co-infection is low.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are predictions that if we don\u2019t do anything, we\u2019re looking at hundreds of millions of deaths worldwide as a result of these multi-drug resistant bacteria,\u201d Dr. Wright explained. \u201cThe other problem is that we also have a diminishing supply of antibiotics because they\u2019re not terribly profitable for drug companies \u2013 so in the last 40 years, we have not identified any new classes of antibiotics. We\u2019re primed for a major health crisis when it comes to these bacterial infections.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cookie decorating event at Marymount University with information on the dangers of superbugs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Upon hearing about the Do Something about Antibiotics Challenge last summer, Dr. Wright led the effort to start a research project at Marymount that could involve numerous students for the submission of the University\u2019s first-ever entry in the Challenge. The student-faculty team focused its research on identifying potential new sources of antibiotics from soil samples right underneath our feet.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would take soil samples, grow them in the lab and isolate the bacteria from the soil in order to test it against \u2018escape relatives,\u2019 or safe versions of really nasty pathogenic bacteria that cause death and disease,\u201d Dr. Wright said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been successful so far at finding isolates that show antimicrobial properties, and we\u2019ll continue to test those and investigate those strains.\u201d<\/p>\n

To raise awareness among the Marymount community, the team then planned a week-long campaign in November with three separate events on campus. These included decorating cookies to look like petri dishes with growing bacteria, a tie-dye mask event outside the Lee Center and a \u2018Paint and Sip\u2019 event in which Saints could paint either a superbug or a superhero.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe students really owned this whole contest,\u201d Dr. Wright added. \u201cThey came up with the ideas, they drove it forward, invited their friends to these events. I was just in the background and really proud to see how invested they were in this challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Marymount students raising awareness about the antibiotic crisis at a tie-dye mask event outside the Lee Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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  Tasked with helping solve the greatest public health emergency of our time, a group of Marymount University students proved themselves to be more than up to the challenge. Seventeen Marymount Saints, led by Biochemistry Professor Dr. Amanda Wright, entered the Small World Initiative\u2019s sixth annual Do Something about Antibiotics Challenge during the Fall 2021 […]<\/p>\n

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