The Innovative Drug Discovery Collaboration Workshop was held on 7-9 August in Niagara Falls, Canada. Twenty researchers and industry experts from Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kirgisia, Ukraine, USA and Canada took part in the event. They discussedmeans to stimulate the development and production of innovative drugs in CIS.

Project proposals have been discussed with the participation of University of Saskatchewan (Canada), International Consortium on Antivirals (USA), Collaborative Drug Discovery Network (USA), NY Biosciences (Canada), TheraLase Technologies Inc., The Canadian Foundation for Global Health (CFGH), The Global Partnership Program/ NSERC, GIPP, and the US Department of Energy.