General Intermediates of Canada Inc.

$233,000.00 CAD

≈ 3 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2018-2019
Agreement period
July 1, 2018 – February 29, 2020
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2018-2019-Q2-909375

Published purpose

The proposed project involves Stage 1 drug discovery program on synthetic anticancer nucleosides based on Firm's existing technology platform in nucleoside chemistry including a library of nucleoside based molecules, many of which have been of interest to the pharmaceutical industry. Objective is to develop and screen a series of synthetic nucleosides, identify lead candidates and fully characterize them for anticancer properties on human cancer cell lines. Ultimate goal is to discover proprietary anticancer drug candidate/s with high therapeutic index for consideration as a pharmaceutical within the synthetic anticancer nucleosides drug class.

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