COMPANY:

Nonacus

"Nonacus is delighted to announce its investment in CanSense: a Swansea-based start-up company focused on the early detection of bowel cancer through a simple blood test...Alongside Nonacus' investment, CanSense has also raised funds from Mercia and the Development Bank of Wales, with this investment enabling the company to further develop the product and carry out clinical trials to meet regulatory requirements and bring it to market."

"Nonacus...will launch GALEAS® Bladder, a novel test for the non-invasive detection of bladder cancer at the European Association of Urology (EAU) Annual Meeting, taking place in Milan, March 10-13th 2023...Developed in collaboration with Professor Rik Bryan and Dr Doug Ward at the University of Birmingham UK, GALEAS® Bladder has been validated in over 600 patient samples from 3 UK clinical cohorts. Analyses confirmed the performance of GALEAS® Bladder, showing high diagnostic accuracy (sensitivity >90%, specificity >85%) and good performance across all grades and stages of bladder cancer."

"Nonacus Ltd...has launched the Cell3™ Target: Custom MRD Panel for rapid and cost-effective minimal residual disease (MRD) detection and longitudinal monitoring...The new solution provides a seamless way to design, verify and manufacture smaller, targeted panels (50-100 probes and 101-500 probes) that allow multiple tumor-specific mutations to be sequenced to an extremely high depth of coverage."

"We've created the first pan-cancer DNA sequencing panel that we know to be optimised for cell free DNA (cfDNA) in paediatric solid tumours...a group at the Institute of Cancer Research recently published the validation of a pan-cancer sequencing panel for liquid biopsy molecular diagnostics which could be used to profile tumor DNA in the blood of paediatric cancer patients. This opens up the possibility to routinely sample patients, monitoring their response to treatment and following their disease progression to detect relapse as early as possible."

"Last July we announced that Nonacus and the University of Birmingham had partnered to develop a non-invasive test for bladder cancer...The latest data shows that the urine test was able to successfully detect 144 out of the 165 people with bladder cancer that had experience haematuria. The test showed an overall sensitivity of 87.3% – a measure of how often a test correctly generates a positive result for people who had bladder cancer – and a specificity of 84.8% – a measure of the test’s ability to correctly generate a negative result for people who didn’t have bladder cancer."

"Nonacus and the University of Birmingham have partnered to develop a non-invasive test for bladder cancer. The test, which is expected to be available by mid-2022, will use highly sensitive liquid biopsy technology developed by Nonacus, and a panel of biomarkers validated by Dr Rik Bryan and Dr Douglas Ward from the University’s Bladder Cancer Research Centre, to diagnose the disease from urine samples."