TechTown's SciTech honored for cancer research

SciTech, a Wayne State University spin-off company located in TechTown, is gaining acclaim for some promising anti-cancer drug research that could potentially save thousands of lives from pancreatic and other deadly cancers.

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SciTech has been chosen by the National Institutes of Health Commercialization Assistance Program to present at the Larta Institute’s 2008 Venture Forum, the largest and longest running showcase of early stage innovation and ntrepreneurship. SciTech also has been chosen to present at the 2008 Michigan Growth Capital Symposium, where investors meet the “Best of the Midwest” in emerging technologies. 

“SciTech has a promising anticancer drug,” said NIH-CAP Principal Advisor Louis Scarmoutzos, a member of the NIH committee that selected SciTech to participate in the Larta forum. “It shows a great deal of probability of being successful, which is no small feat. There’s a vast minefield of drug candidates that have failed. One of the unique features of SciTech’s drug is that it has been used in good model systems that include human data. SciTech actually has the right mix of science and business acumen.”

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