{"id":22166,"date":"2022-02-08T19:15:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T13:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/biz-bugworks\/"},"modified":"2022-02-08T19:21:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T13:51:31","slug":"biz-bugworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/biz-bugworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical research startup Bugworks gets $18 mln from Lightrock, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"trade-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"trade-531358612\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/get\/telegram\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-101992\" src=\"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/telegram-channel-300x119.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"59\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN3Epgswxc--Aw?hl=en-IN&amp;gl=IN&amp;ceid=IN%3Aen\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-123430\" src=\"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/follow-on-google-news-300x82.png\" alt=\"follow-on-google-news\" width=\"222\" height=\"61\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/follow-on-google-news-300x82.png 300w, https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/follow-on-google-news-150x41.png 150w, https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/follow-on-google-news.png 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><p>       Mumbai, Feb 8 (PTI) Bugworks Research, a clinical stage multi-indication therapeutics startup, has raised USD 18 million (around Rs 134 crore) in a funding round by Lightrock India and existing investors, including the University of Tokyo Edge Capital and Japanese investment house Global Brain Corporation.<\/p><div class=\"trade-content_7\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"trade-2921787663\"><!-- Composite Start --> \r\n <div id=\"M923760ScriptRootC1549812\"> \r\n <\/div> \r\n <script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.mgid.com\/t\/r\/tradebrains.in.1549812.js\" async> \r\n <\/script> \r\n <!-- Composite End --><\/div>\n<p> 3One4Capital India, Acquipharma Holdings, IM Holdings, Featherlite Group India,  Lord Jim O&#8217;Neill, the author of &#8216;The Review on Antimicrobial Resistance2016&#8243; and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, chairperson and founder of Biocon, are among the other investors.<\/p>\n<p> Bugworks is developing novel therapeutic assets in the anti-infectives and immuno-oncology areas using computational biology, pharmacology, structural-biology, and medicinal chemistry.<\/p>\n<p> The Bengaluru-based startup &#8212; which has offices at Saratoga in California, and Adelaide in Australia &#8212; said the funding will support clinical development of a broad spectrum anti-bacterial agent, and the pre-clinical development of its adenosine immuno-oncology asset.<\/p><div class=\"trade-content_5\" id=\"trade-2089311289\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4023722985638610\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- in_content_2_news -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4023722985638610\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7925020301\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p>        Its lead anti-bacterial asset BWC0977 continues to be supported by CARB-X, the global non-profit partnership dedicated to accelerating anti-bacterial research to tackle the global threat of drug-resistant bacteria, said the company founded by Anand Anandkumar in 2014.<\/p>\n<p> This funding will advance its highly differentiated assets in the dual areas of antimicrobial resistance and immuno-oncology, Anandkumar, who is the chief executive, said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> He also said that Tejasvi Ravi of Lightrock will join the board as a director. 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