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Varun Kothamachu

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Senior Prod & AI solutions Manager@lifebit. Founding Steward @microdao.bsky.social

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Varun Kothamachu @varunkothamachu.bsky.social · 4d

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microDAO @microdao.bsky.social · 4d

Let’s wrap up the week with a closer look at 11 pathogens the CDC classifies as Serious AMR Threats:

🦠 Drug-resistant Campylobacter
🧫 Drug-resistant Candida
💊 ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae
🧪 Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE)
🧬 Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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microDAO @microdao.bsky.social · 5d

Antibiotic Resistance spreads easily across the globe 🌏, Resistant bacteria and fungi can spread across continent through people, animal and goods.
One billion people cross through international borders each year.👇

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microDAO @microdao.bsky.social · 12d

🧬 Hello Micronauts! Did You Know?

Staphylococcus aureus (often just called “staph”) lives harmlessly in the nose or on the skin of 30% of people, but when it becomes methicillin-resistant (MRSA), it can resist multiple antibiotics making infections far harder to treat. #Athread

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microDAO @microdao.bsky.social · 8d

🦠 Understanding AMR Threats: What’s the Most Urgent?
According to the CDC’s 2019 AMR Threat Report, 18 major pathogens are classified into three categories: Urgent, Serious, and Concerning threats.{Athread}👇

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Varun Kothamachu @varunkothamachu.bsky.social · 12d

With a new enzyme for cell wall synthesis and an alternative cell division mechanism, mrsa has become highly resistant to antimicrobials

targetting these mechanisms can unlock new antimicrobials to tackle mrsa causes infections

sheffield.ac.uk/news/mrsas-d...

#letstalkaboutAMR

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microDAO @microdao.bsky.social · 17d

💡 AMR is one of the most urgent health threats today; broken funding systems slow innovation.

MicroDAO is rethinking the model:
✅ Decentralised fundraising
✅ Transparent incentives
✅ Global participation

Science needs new infrastructure. 🌍🧠
🔗 [https://shorturl.at/n3L29]

Why AMR Innovation Needs New Funding Models, and How Web3 Can Help

In our earlier posts, we introduced MicroDAO’s vision: to build a new, decentralised infrastructure for tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR), one of the most urgent and complex global health…

microdao.substack.com

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microDAO @microdao.bsky.social · Sep 6

🌐 The future of science is changing.

DAOs: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations are global, community-powered networks.
👥 Members fund & govern projects collectively
📜 Decisions are transparent & on-chain
🌍 Borderless by design
Think of them as digital cooperatives for big challenges.

#Web3 #DAO

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