CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zalicus Inc. (Nasdaq Global Market: ZLCS) today announced that preclinical data showing the advantages of applying Zalicus’s state dependent screening approach to identify novel calcium channel blockers for the treatment of pain was presented on March 18 at the 4th Annual RSC/SCI Symposium on Ion Channels as Therapeutic Targets Conference taking place from March 18-19, 2013 in Cambridge, UK.