Nonagen Bioscience

Nonagen Bioscience

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Private Company

Total funding raised: $14.5M

Overview

Nonagen Bioscience is a private, pre-revenue diagnostics company founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Diego, California. The company is developing a multiplex protein immunoassay platform, with its lead candidate, Oncuria®, targeting bladder cancer for detection, recurrence monitoring, and therapy response prediction. As a physician-led organization, Nonagen's mission is to reduce the global burden of cancer by providing innovative diagnostic tools to improve clinical decision-making and patient outcomes.

OncologyUrologic Oncology

Technology Platform

Multiplex protein immunoassay platform for simultaneous measurement of multiple biomarkers from a single sample.

Funding History

2
Total raised:$14.5M
Series A$12M
Seed$2.5M

Opportunities

A significant unmet need exists for non-invasive, accurate diagnostic and monitoring tools in bladder cancer, a common cancer with high recurrence rates.
Success with Oncuria could position Nonagen as a leader in urologic oncology diagnostics and validate its platform for expansion into other cancer types.

Risk Factors

The company faces high clinical and regulatory risk as its success depends entirely on the unproven performance and approval of its single lead product, Oncuria.
It also faces commercialization challenges, including establishing reimbursement and competing with other emerging diagnostic technologies.

Competitive Landscape

The bladder cancer diagnostic space is competitive, with other companies developing urine-based biomarker tests (e.g., NMP22, UroVysion) and new liquid biopsy assays using genomic or other molecular signatures. Nonagen's multiplex protein immunoassay approach must demonstrate superior clinical utility to gain market share.