Bugworks Research bags $18 million in funding round led by Lightrock India, othersBugworks Research said it will continue to invest in its proprietary drug discovery platforms GYROX (for AMR) and DARE (for Immuno-oncology...
08 Feb, 2022, 05.37 PM IST
Bangalore startup develops fabric to disinfect against Covid-19, masks as first productScientists and technologists in India and the United States collaborated to identify a molecule that when applied to the fabric binds on it...
14 Aug, 2020, 10.24 PM IST
Biopharma startup Bugworks raises $7.5 million in fresh financing roundThe latest capital raise will allow the company to complete its phase-1 studies for its GYROX series intravenous drug candidate, as well as...
23 Apr, 2020, 09.30 AM IST
Bugworks Research set for pre-clinical drug trialsCARB-X was formed two years ago as a public-private partnership to tackle the rising menace of antibiotic resistance.
08 Dec, 2018, 10.35 AM IST
Our funding focus is beyond Ecommerce: K Vijayaraghavan, principal scientific advisor to the Prime Minister"It is important to keep in mind that the best way to avoid challenges is not to get started at all," says Vijayaraghavan.
24 Nov, 2018, 11.00 PM IST
Bugworks Research bags Rs 62 crore in Series AThe company plans to use the funds to deepen its clinical trials.
13 Aug, 2018, 09.28 AM IST
At the epicenter of a war, Indian antibiotic startups are fighting back“We’re creating a bullet against organisms that are taking out humanity. Wouldn’t it be nice to get a battleground to test it on that’s rea...
26 Jun, 2018, 10.45 AM IST
With cryo-electron microscope, India hopes to join the revolution sweeping across the world of medicineThe microscope which set the world of biology on fire required expertise to operate. Without Ragunath, the microscope would be just like a ...
12 Feb, 2018, 08.06 PM IST
Bugworks Research wins Top Innovator at ET Startup Awards 2017"At a time where the business narrative is predominantly dominated by tech, it is so heartening to see the Economics Times giving a platfor...
18 Aug, 2017, 09.31 PM IST
Up in the air: Monitoring microbes"If you can prevent the spread from one region of the hospital to another, you would reduce the rate in which people pick up infection in t...
28 Jul, 2017, 01.03 AM IST
ET Startup Awards 2017: Both Bugworks Research & Pandorum Technologies grab 'Top Innovator' awardDespite the complexities, long durations and dearth of money required for such research, several young companies are making a global impact...
24 Jul, 2017, 11.37 AM IST
Biotech startups: Govt steps in where investors fear to treadA flagship government-funding programme has provided a springboard to India's biotechnology industry by backing innovative and risky projec...
17 Feb, 2017, 11.48 AM IST
Now smaller firms developing antibiotics but will society, politicians accept high prices?As a woman dies in the US from a superbug infection likely caught in India, four domestic companies are taking up the cudgels in the area o...
22 Jan, 2017, 12.02 AM IST
How entrepreneur Ashok Vohra uses talent & technology to empower poor womenHe is devising a 12-week programme with entrepreneurfriend Anand Anandkumar, founder, Bugworks Research, to provide computer literacy.
18 Jan, 2016, 11.25 AM IST
How Bengaluru became the biotech capital of IndiaThis bio-cluster is situated not too far from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), research-led university that is also generating start...
12 Nov, 2015, 10.58 AM IST
With big data getting captured, biologists look for life-saving patternsStrand is using its data analysis skills to stratify cancer patients according to their genetic composition.
14 Feb, 2015, 04.34 AM IST
Why Indian startups like Bugworks, Vitas Pharma have entered the field of drug discoveryAcross geographies, big pharmaceutical companies seem to have stepped back from research and development (R&D) for new drug discovery in th...
18 Jan, 2015, 02.30 PM IST