Form: SB-2/A

Optional form for registration of securities to be sold to the public by small business issuers

December 13, 2005




                                                                    EXHIBIT 23.2



            CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM



To the Board of Directors
Novelos Therapeutics, Inc.

We consent to the use of our report dated February 9, 2005, in the Registration
Statement of Novelos Therapeutics, Inc. on form SB-2 (Amendment No. 1) (File No.
333-129744), relating to the registration of 14,831,798 shares of common stock.
We also consent to the use of our name and the reference to us in the "Experts"
section of this registration statement.


/s/ Stowe & Degon
Stowe & Degon
Worcester, MA
November 16, 2005