VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwire - January 09, 2008) - Upstream Biosciences Inc. (OTCBB: UPBS) today announced that it has entered into a collaboration with the Combinatorial Chemistry Center of the Chemistry Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) in Moscow, Russia for the chemical synthesis of novel compounds that Upstream intends to test for efficacy and toxicity against tropical parasitic diseases, including malaria, leishmaniasis and trypanosomiasis, or African sleeping sickness, as well as for cancer indications.