Form: S-8

Initial registration statement for securities to be offered to employees pursuant to employee benefit plans

January 19, 2010

 
Exhibit 23.1
 
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
 
To the Board of Directors
Novelos Therapeutics, Inc.
 
 
We consent to the incorporation by reference  of our report dated March 17, 2009, relating to the financial statements of Novelos Therapeutics, Inc. as of December 31, 2008 and 2007 and for the years then ended in the Registration Statement on Form S-8 of Novelos Therapeutics, Inc., relating to the registration of 12,509,825 shares of common stock.

 
/s/ Stowe & Degon LLC
 
Westborough, Massachusetts
January 19, 2010