India's Zydus Cadila partners on drug-resistant infections research

5 July 2018

Indian pharma company Zydus Cadila has joined forces with a government research organization to identify new drug candidates for treatment of drug-resistant infections.

The partnership is with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)- Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), a premier microbial institute under the aegis of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The agreement between CSIR-IMTECH and Zydus will see scientists from both organizations working closely together on microbiology and genomics to identify new lead candidate asnovel anti-tuberculosis compounds. For this project, scientists at IMTECH will utilize their expertise and scientific knowledge in microbiology while Zydus Cadila will provide its expertise in medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutical drug development with an aim to develop new drug combinations against drug-resistant pathogens which causes severe diseases in India and across the world.

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