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MaRS Innovation Forms Strategic Drug-Development Partnership with NovoTek Therapeutics Inc. in China

ScarX logoMaRS Innovation (MI), The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and NovoTek Therapeutics Inc. (NovoTek)  have announced a strategic partnership to co‐develop, and bring to the Chinese market, a novel therapeutic cream aimed at reducing scar formation post surgery.

This project was covered in The Globe and Mail on May 7, 2012.

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CAMH researcher’s leading-edge therapy targets brain chemistry of addiction

CAMH and MaRS Innovation partner on innovative approach to nicotine addiction

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) LogoTORONTO (Dec. 17, 2009) — Grappling with nicotine addiction is never easy, but a new drug therapy – developed by Dr. Fang Liu at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) – brings promise to one of our great public health challenges.

The experimental medication in development at Dr. Liu’s lab targets the brain chemistry associated with addiction by disrupting a specific receptor-receptor interaction.

Proof-of-concept data demonstrate that this therapy decreases addictive behavior associated with nicotine and alcohol in preclinical models.

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