Navignostics announces new board of directors
27 February 2023
Navignostics announces the new board composition, ideally constituted to contribute to the successful development of Navignostics in the coming years.
Our advanced multiplexed imaging technology and customizable algorithms will accelerate your drug development process. We can support you with benchmarking analyses, characterization of drug modes of action, retrospective clinical trial analyses, identification of patients likely to benefit from a particular drug to guide clinical trial enrollment and with development of companion diagnostics.
We leverage our unique multiplexed imaging technology and data analytics capabilities to provide you with key insights into disease and drug resistance mechanisms. We can support you in clinical research and studies and in collaborations with private partners. Our tumor analysis panels are modular and can be tailored to readouts of interest for a given indication.
In collaboration with our partners in pathology and oncology, we are developing class-leading personalized diagnostics products to help clinicians identify the best possible treatment (combination) for each patient. We have demonstrated clinical usefulness of our approach and can already provide clinicians with treatment recommendations when other diagnostics failed or to prioritize results from other diagnostics.
Navignostics AG was founded in 2022 with a clear mission: To leverage our unique tumor analysis approaches to improve personalized diagnostics for cancer patients.
Having demonstrated the clinical usefulness of our approach, we are currently developing diagnostic tests from first-line to off-label treatments for several tumor indications. In one such project, we are developing novel spatial biomarker signatures to determine the best individual first-line therapy for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. We conduct this project together with our clinical partner Prof. Andreas Wicki at the University Hospital of Zurich.
Learn more about the vision behind Navignostics by listening to the discussion between co-founder Prof. Bernd Bodenmiller and Dr. Thomas Solbach from Strategy&.
Prof. Bodenmiller explains how the strategy used by Navignostics will revolutionize healthcare and modern medicine by providing patients with personalized and individual care.
The podcast is available on Apple Podcast or on Spotify.
Navignostics assays detect proteins that characterize tumors. They describe the tumor cells, the cancer-related processes and other present cells such as immune cells. To detect these proteins, we stain cancer tissues with panels of over 40 selected metal-labelled antibodies.
These antibodies are detected with an imaging mass cytometry system that measures the metal signals corresponding to each of the proteins of interest in a single step. The result is a high-resolution digital image representation of the molecular composition of the tumor.
From these images, we extract a wealth of tumor features ranging from single-cell protein expressions to cell types, to cellular interactions and assemblies. Our proprietary automated experimental and computational workflows ensure fast and best-in-class data generation and analysis.
Our results are highly valuable to understand drug and disease mechanisms, provide individualized drug treatment suggestions and identify novel signatures that separate patients who will likely respond to a drug from those who will not. Our flexible analyses are readily adapted to new questions.
Navignostics announces the new board composition, ideally constituted to contribute to the successful development of Navignostics in the coming years.
Navignostics raised CHF 7.5M in a seed financing round led by Bruker Invest AG, joined by Think.Health Ventures, Ventura Biomed Investors, and the Zürcher Kantonalbank.
Navignostics is delighted to welcome Eleni Tselempi, who is joining the team as a product developer
Navignostics is a spin-off from the University of Zurich, with roots in the Bodenmiller lab.
Our operations and laboratories are located in Zurich, Switzerland.
Navignostics is currently located at the University of Zurich.
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