The nanomedicine industry is a dynamic sector that marries advanced nanotechnology and medicine. Companies operating in this field leverage the power of minuscule nanoparticles to address major healthcare challenges. This cutting-edge technology offers precision in drug delivery, focused treatment options, and trailblazing diagnostics. From creating particles as small as 10 nm for increased dissolution rates to developing state-of-the-art platforms for manufacturing high-quality products, the array of offerings from these companies is vast. As our understanding of nanotechnology deepens, there is significant potential for this industry to revolutionize personalized medicine, predictive diagnostics, and targeted therapy.


Top 28 Nanomedicine Companies

1. Precision NanoSystems Inc.

Precision Nanosystems is a company specializing in nanomedicine and drug delivery systems. They offer innovative solutions for the efficient delivery of various therapeutic payloads, including mRNA, siRNA, plasmids, small molecules, proteins, and peptides. Their proprietary NanoAssemblr platform enables scalable and reproducible manufacturing processes, leading to the development of high-quality products. With a focus on precision and control, Precision Nanosystems helps accelerate the commercialization of treatments in areas such as oncology, rare diseases, and infectious diseases.


2. Nanoform

  • Website: nanoform.com
  • Headquarters: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
  • Founded: 2015
  • Headcount: 51-200
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Nanoform is a company specializing in producing nanoparticles as small as 10 nm, which have a greater active surface area and increased rate of dissolution. They offer technology for polymorphic purity tests and control of particle size and shape. Nanoform focuses on the pharmaceutical industry.


3. Izon Science

  • Website: izon.com
  • Headquarters: Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
  • Founded: 2005
  • Headcount: 51-200
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izon.com is a company specializing in extracellular vesicles, nanomedicine, and virus & VLPs. They offer fast, easy, and pure isolation of extracellular vesicles and accurate measurement of nanoparticles through their products and services.


4. Nanotherapeutics, Inc.

  • Website: nanotherapeutics.com
  • Headquarters: Alachua, Florida, United States
  • Founded: 1999
  • Headcount: 51-200
  • Latest funding type: Acquired
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Nanotherapeutics is a company that specializes in the research, development, and production of advanced nanotechnology-based therapeutics. It offers innovative solutions for various medical conditions using cutting-edge nanomaterials and drug delivery systems.


5. Terray Therapeutics

  • Website: terraytx.com
  • Headquarters: Pasadena, California, United States
  • Founded: 2018
  • Headcount: 11-50
  • Latest funding type: Series A
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Terray Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that leverages computational approaches to accelerate drug discovery and deliver therapies faster. They have recently secured a $60 million Series A financing and are focused on advancing their tNova platform. With a team of industry veterans, Terray aims to unlock the potential of AI-driven small molecule drug discovery.


6. NanoFCM

  • Website: nanofcm.com
  • Headquarters: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
  • Founded: 2014
  • Headcount: 51-200
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NanoFCM is a company that specializes in nanoparticle flow cytometry. They offer capabilities to the nanoscale, with ultra-sensitive and high-resolution scatter and fluorescence measurements. NanoFCM provides services for sample analysis, material quality control, and offers products such as silica nanoparticles and quality control beads.


7. NanOlife

  • Website: nanolife.in
  • Headquarters: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Founded: 2005
  • Headcount: 51-200
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Nanolife is a global company based in Chennai that specializes in the development and production of Nanomedicine products using Green Nanotechnology. With a focus on Oncology, Ophthalmology, Antibiotics, and Cosmeceuticals, Nanolife aims to improve the quality of life for individuals by preventing and treating debilitating diseases and disorders.


8. SGN Nanopharma Inc

  • Website: sgn.bio
  • Headquarters: Tampa, Florida, United States
  • Headcount: 11-50
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SGN NanoPharma is an innovative, clinical-stage and revenue-generating developer of nanotherapeutics. The company combines proprietary nanotechnologies with structural biology to reformulate FDA approved drugs and develop novel therapies. Their aim is to safely deliver large dose therapies as an alternative to traditional medicines.


9. Nanomedicine Research Group, ICTMumbai

nano-medicine.co.in is a nanomedicine research group that focuses on the development of biopharmaceutical products such as peptides, proteins, and probiotics. Their research includes cell line development, upstream bioprocessing, and 3D printing of pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals.


10. Dirnano Msca-itn

Dirnano is developing biocompatible nanopharmaceuticals for cancer immunotherapy and vaccination by mapping nanoparticle-immune interactions through two core approaches. They offer nanometer- and angstrom-scale characteristics that modulate complement responses to nanoparticles.


11. SFNano

  • Website: sfnano.fr
  • Headquarters: Paris, Île-De-France, France
  • Founded: 2013
  • Headcount: 11-50
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SFNano is a French non-profit association of multidisciplinary academics from CNRS, INSERM, Universities, and CEA. The focus is on nanomedicine, including diagnostic, therapy, imaging and theranostic technologies for health.


12. PDX Pharmaceuticals

  • Website: pdxpharm.com
  • Headquarters: Portland, Oregon, United States
  • Founded: 2010
  • Headcount: 1-10
  • Latest funding type: Series A
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PDX Pharmaceuticals is an IND-enabling stage biopharmaceutical company. We develop novel combination and immunotherapies to treat cancer by bringing complementary biological pathways together to achieve synergistic clinical benefit. Our therapeutic candidates bridge the innate and adaptive immune systems by generating profound CD8+ T cell production Our pipelines are patented AIRISE (Augmenting Immune Responses and Inhibiting the Suppressive Environment of Tumors) and ARAC (Antigen Release Agent and Checkpoint Inhibitor) pipelines that generate anti-tumor immunity when given locally (AIRISE) or systemically (ARAC) by relying on patient' s own tumor in situ as the source of antigens.


13. C.R.S. Italia Group S.A.S. Di Caltagirone Filomena

  • Website: crsitalia.it
  • Headquarters: Senerchia, Avellino, Italy
  • Headcount: 11-50

CRS Italia is the Italian chapter of the Controlled Release Society, a professional organization dedicated to advancing drug delivery technology. The chapter hosts events, webinars, and competitions to foster communication and innovation in the field.


14. Nanomerics Ltd

Nanomerics uses its world-leading pharmaceutical nanotechnology to develop new medicines faster, cheaper, and with dramatically reduced risk. Nanomerics proprietary technology boosts the activity of hydrophobic drugs and peptides by getting them where they need to be. This allows the creation of new medicines based on known drug compounds that now can be given in new ways and for new indications. Nanomerics’ Molecular Envelope Technology (MET) is applicable to a broad range of compounds and allows targeting of diseases via the oral and nasal route, delivery to the eye, and across the blood-brain-barrier. Nanomerics offers its medicines development capability and expertise to partners wanting to enable specific drugs, e.g. the company is currently working with a NSADAQ company on two oral products and an Asian company on nasal delivery. Nanomerics also develops its own nano-enabled medicines and has products targeting the ophthalmic market as well as oral medicines e.g. in the area of oncology. Its lead product is a peptide for the treatment of chronic pain. The endogenous peptide is already known to be efficacious and safe. Combination with the MET system creates a nano-enabled medicine that avoids some of the significant problems of current opioid drugs.


15. UniQuest

UniQuest is a company dedicated to business continuity, offering innovative solutions for secure and commercialized intellectual property.


16. BIOTRIP.nl

Biotech incubator


17. Center for Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine at UNMC

Center for Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine (CDDN) was established in October 2004 by the University of Nebraska Board of the Regents. CDDN develops innovative approaches to deliver drugs, genes and imaging agents through nanotechnology to maximize clinical benefit while limiting untoward side effects. Our research is focused on diseases that currently have no cure and only limited palliative therapy including cancer and degenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. CDDN currently has 38 world class researchers from clinical and basic sciences departments representing two major campuses of the University of Nebraska, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), and the Creighton University. CDDN is administered through the UNMC College of Pharmacy. In summary our Center 1) provides an integrated focus in drug delivery and nanomedicine 2) supports research and training of new and established investigators 3) links scientists in several campuses across the State of Nebraska 4) combines the intellectual and technological capabilities of these campuses to develop innovative nanotechnologies and 5) facilitates the transfer of these technologies to biomedical scientists.


18. British Society for Nanomedicine

The British Society for Nanomedicine is a registered charity that provides open access for industry, academia, clinicians, and the public to news and details of ongoing research throughout the UK in the field of nanomedicine.


19. NanoBioAp

NanoBioAp is a multidisciplinary consortium of research teams devoted to developing biotechnological applications of nanoparticles.


20. ERA-Chairs project

ESEI-BioMed is a project funded by the European Commission that aims to enhance and strengthen the excellence of interdisciplinary biomedical research at the TRANSCEND research center, Regional Institute of Oncology, Iasi, Romania.


21. SynCell Biotechnology

SynCell Biotechnology unlocks the power of nature by using bacteria as biofactories of nanomaterials with biomedical applications


22. TissueGen, Inc.

TissueGen is a company specializing in transformative drug delivery technologies. With a focus on reducing treatment burden and improving clinical outcomes, TissueGen creates life changing treatment modalities for patients and caregivers, targeting both acute and chronic conditions.


23. Cerulean Pharma Inc.

  • Website: ceruleanrx.com
  • Headquarters: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
  • Founded: 2006
  • Headcount: 11-50
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Cerulean is a nanopharmaceutical company focused on enhancing patient outcomes in diseases with high unmet medical needs. They develop innovative nanopharmaceuticals that offer superior efficacy and tolerability compared to traditional medications.


24. Australian Centre for NanoMedicine

The Australian Centre for NanoMedicine commenced at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2011. Our unique research centre incorporates researchers from UNSW’s faculties of Engineering, Medicine and Science. The Centre's mission remains to provide solutions to clinical challenges in medicine through world leading interdisciplinary researchers in diagnostics and therapeutic delivery. Team ACN continues to work on diseases including neuroblastoma, lung, blood and pancreatic cancers, while diabetes, asthma and uveitis are part of our non-cancer portfolio. Our skills in drug delivery, imaging agents and diagnostic devices are producing world leading outcomes reflected in our strong publication record. ACN has established the International NanoMedicine Conference series, which will be in its 8th year in 2017. This event is regarded as the most significant nanomedicine meeting in the Southern Hemisphere, taking place annually at our local beach, Coogee Beach Sydney, early July. We hope you will join us for Great Science in a Great Location.


25. Theranostics

  • Website: thno.org
  • Headquarters: Sydney, Australia
  • Founded: 2011
  • Headcount: 11-50
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Nanotheranostics is a scientific journal that publishes innovative research articles focusing on the fields of in vitro diagnostics and prognostics, in vivo molecular imaging, molecular therapeutics, image-guided therapy, biosensors, system biology and translational medicine, personalized medicine and a broad spectrum of biomedical research that can be applied to future theranostic applications.


26. LipoCure Ltd.

LipoCure is a biotech company focused on developing highly-potent therapeutics utilizing proprietary liposome-based nano-drugs with novel drug-loading-capabilities and drug-release mechanisms. Their unique technology allows for an enhanced permeability and retention effect, significantly improving therapeutic effect and reducing side effects of drugs used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and cancer.


27. Arrogene, Inc.

  • Website: arrogene.com
  • Headquarters: Los Angeles, California, United States
  • Founded: 2007
  • Headcount: 11-50
  • Latest funding type: Series Unknown
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Arrogene is a nanomedicine company specializing in developing personalized cancer treatment. Their unique platform can deliver multiple tumor inhibitors or imaging agents and is tailored to fight different types of cancer.


28. iCANCER

iCancerConference.com is an international conference platform that specializes in cancer research, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. It provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and authoritative views by eminent personalities in the field of cancer science, drug development, nanotechnology, clinical trials, imaging, and oncology care.


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