Corporate Profile
Nuvo Research Inc. is a publicly traded (TSX:NRI), Canadian specialty pharmaceutical company, headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario. The Company is building a portfolio of products for the treatment of pain through internal research and development and by in-licensing and acquisition.
The Company's Pain Group, located in West Chester, Pennsylvania, is focused on the development and commercialization of topically delivered pain products. The Company’s product portfolio includes Pennsaid®, Pliaglis® and Synera®.
Pennsaid, a topical NSAID, is used to treat the signs and symptoms of OA of the knee(s). Pennsaid is sold in the United States by Mallinckrodt Inc., the pharmaceuticals business of Covidien, in Canada by Paladin Labs Inc. (TSX:PLB) and in several European countries.
Pliaglis is a topical local anesthetic cream, which is FDA-approved to provide topical local analgesia for superficial dermatological procedures. The Company has licensed worldwide marketing rights to Pliaglis to Galderma Pharma S.A., a global company dedicated to dermatology.
Synera is a topical patch that combines lidocaine, tetracaine and heat, approved in the United States to provide local dermal analgesia for superficial venous access and superficial dermatological procedures and in Europe, for surface anaesthesia of normal intact skin. Nuvo currently markets Synera in the United States and its licensing partner, EuroCept International B.V., has initiated a pan-European launch of Synera (under the name Rapydan®) in several European countries.
Through its subsidiary, Nuvo Research GmbH, based in Leipzig, Germany, the Company is also developing the compound WF10, for the treatment of immune related diseases
