{"entity":{"id":"photodynamic-solutions","kind":"company","name":"PhotoDynamica","aka":["Photodynamic Solutions, Inc.","Photodynamic Solutions"],"tldr":"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.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"Official website","url":"https://photodynamica.com/"},{"label":"Team","url":"https://photodynamica.com/team/"},{"label":"NIH RePORTER: award 1R41CA302359-01A1","url":"https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11409103"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["oral-cavity-cancer"],"sections":["devices"],"technologies":["photodynamic-therapy-lasers"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"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."],"hq":"Newton Highlands, MA","country":"US","companyType":"devices","website":"https://photodynamica.com/","stage":"startup","investors":[],"funding":[{"round":"Grant","year":2026,"amountUsd":315333,"source":"https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11409103","note":"NCI STTR (R41) award 1R41CA302359-01A1: Low-cost technology for image-guided photodynamic treatment of oral lesions in resource-limited settings"}]},"route":"/companies/photodynamic-solutions/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"oral-cavity-cancer","kind":"cancer","name":"Oral cavity cancer (mouth and tongue)","route":"/cancers/oral-cavity-cancer/"}],"section":[{"id":"devices","kind":"section","name":"Devices & Physical Therapies","route":"/fronts/devices/"}],"technology":[{"id":"photodynamic-therapy-lasers","kind":"technology","name":"Photodynamic therapy lasers and light sources","route":"/technologies/photodynamic-therapy-lasers/"}]}}