{"entity":{"id":"navigation-sciences","kind":"company","name":"Navigation Sciences","aka":["Navigation Sciences, Inc."],"tldr":"Navigation Sciences is developing the NaviSci system, which tracks a small lung tumour in real time during keyhole surgery so the surgeon can remove it with a safe margin. It is an investigational device.","summary":"Navigation Sciences, Inc. is developing the NaviSci system to locate and remove soft tissue cancers, starting with small lung nodules; the company says the system has completed a clinical feasibility trial and labels it an investigational device. The NIH RePORTER abstract describes real-time navigation to localise non-palpable nodules and resect them with sufficient margins during sublobar resection such as segmentectomy. In fiscal year 2026 NCI awarded it USD 181,271 under STTR award 5R41CA306611-02.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"Official website","url":"https://navigationsci.com/"},{"label":"NIH RePORTER: STTR award 5R41CA306611-02","url":"https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11417942"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["lung-cancer"],"sections":["surgery","devices"],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":["navisci-system"],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":["The website refused a scripted read; its text was read through a page fetch on 4 November 2026, with NIH RePORTER."],"provenance":{"editedBy":"OnCo startup monitors","editedOn":"2026-11-04"},"hq":"Brookline, MA","country":"US","companyType":"devices","website":"https://navigationsci.com/","stage":"startup","investors":[],"funding":[{"round":"Grant","year":2026,"amountUsd":181271,"source":"https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11417942","note":"NCI STTR award (R41) 5R41CA306611-02: Targeted Localization and Optimized Surgical Resection for Lung Cancer"}]},"route":"/companies/navigation-sciences/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"lung-cancer","kind":"cancer","name":"Lung cancer (all types)","route":"/cancers/lung-cancer/"}],"section":[{"id":"devices","kind":"section","name":"Devices & Physical Therapies","route":"/fronts/devices/"},{"id":"surgery","kind":"section","name":"Surgery & Interventional","route":"/fronts/surgery/"}],"drug":[{"id":"navisci-system","kind":"drug","name":"NaviSci system","route":"/drugs/navisci-system/"}]}}