# PhotoDynamica

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## TL;DR

PhotoDynamica is a Massachusetts start-up building low-cost light equipment for photodynamic therapy, a treatment in which a light-activated drug destroys cancer cells, starting with early oral cancers in places with few resources.

## Summary

Photodynamic Solutions, Inc., trading as PhotoDynamica, develops photodynamic therapy (PDT) technology for oral and skin cancers. Its co-founders include Tayyaba Hasan of Harvard Medical School and Jonathan Celli of the University of Massachusetts Boston, whose NIH-funded work tested low-cost PDT for early oral cancers in a 30-patient trial at Aligarh Muslim University in India, according to the company. A 2026 National Cancer Institute STTR award funds low-cost, image-guided photodynamic treatment of oral cancers and potentially malignant oral lesions in resource-limited settings, using FDA-approved aminolevulinic acid as the photosensitiser.

## Fields

- Kind: Company
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Also known as: Photodynamic Solutions, Inc.; Photodynamic Solutions
- HQ: Newton Highlands, MA
- Type: devices
- Website: https://photodynamica.com/

## Notes

- Company website (home, team and contact pages) and the NIH RePORTER record read on 4 November 2026. The domain photodynamicsolutions.com redirects to photodynamica.com; the contact page gives the legal name Photodynamic Solutions, Inc. at a Waltham, Massachusetts address, while RePORTER gives Newton Highlands. The trial result the company quotes is its own summary and is not recorded here.

## Sources

- Official website: https://photodynamica.com/
- Team: https://photodynamica.com/team/
- NIH RePORTER: award 1R41CA302359-01A1: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11409103

## Connected records

- cancers: [Oral cavity cancer (mouth and tongue)](https://onco.cc/cancers/oral-cavity-cancer/)
- fronts: [Devices & Physical Therapies](https://onco.cc/fronts/devices/)
- technologies: [Photodynamic therapy lasers and light sources](https://onco.cc/technologies/photodynamic-therapy-lasers/)

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