Local company transforming stroke, brain cancer treatment

The art of developing innovative medical treatments can simply consist of reassigning how a compound is being used. 

Just ask Dr. Evan Unger, who co-founded NuvOx Pharma, a Tucson-based research and development company. 

Since 2008, NuvOx Pharma has focused on treating life-threatening diseases involving hypoxia, where oxygen is prevented from traveling to body tissue which disrupts metabolic functioning.

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