GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – UWGB students looking to identify new life-saving antibiotics are getting some help from the Green Bay Packers.
UW-Green Bay science students are taking part in the worldwide “Tiny Earth” initiative that uses a global network of college students in 15 countries and almost every state in the U.S., to identify new antibiotics produced by bacteria in soil environments.
This year, UWGB biology professor Brian Merkel tells FOX 11 students will study a soil sample from Clarke Hinkle Field, one of the two Packers outdoor practice fields.
“A soil sample from the Packers’ practice field is incredibly exciting to our Wisconsin Tiny Earth students. The partnership is a testament to the good that happens when partnerships, including high schools, colleges, business, and industry, including the Packers, come together for the common good.”
Students will present their findings at the Tiny Earth in Titletown Symposium at the Lambeau Field Atrium on December 6th.
Research says 700,000 people around the world die each year from drug-resistant diseases with common diseases becoming untreatable. Left unchanged, drug-resistant diseases could kill 10 million people by the year by 2050.
