Breaking Bad Bugs WITH REPURPOSED DRUGS Dr. Meghan Blackledge
Dr. Heather Miller
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Approximately two out of every 100 people
Drs. Meghan Blackledge and Heather Miller, both
aureus). These bacterial organisms are becoming
working together to combat this serious threat.
carry MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus more common and are particularly bad for patients with implanted medical devices like catheters. MRSA is a major health concern because it can outsmart most of the drug treatments that humans try to use to fight it. In fact, the Center for Disease Control calls MRSA a “serious threat� due to
its ability to grow even in the presence of many antibiotics.
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professors in the department of chemistry, are Their collaboration capitalizes on their individual strengths and different scientific subdisciplines to discover novel methods to combat antibiotic resistance in MRSA. In the labs of Drs. Blackledge and Miller, first-year students through seniors are actively conducting this research. Strolling into the new Wanek School of Natural Sciences, one will find these students at the bench each day culturing
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