Find cancer at the first appointment.

We are developing a test that reads a drop of serum in about 90 seconds, with photonics and machine learning, so the answer can come in the room.

We are working with:

  • National Physical Laboratory
  • University of Oxford
  • Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • 90 secs from a drop to a score, in the room, no lab
  • 1 drop of serum, one single-use cartridge
  • 4 in 5 cystoscopies today find no cancer
  • 2,600+ human samples in our certified biobank

The problem

Imagine the answer at that first appointment.

Blood in the urine, or a PSA result in the grey zone, starts a long referral pathway: weeks or months of waiting, then a camera or a needle. Most of those procedures find no cancer. Serox aims to answer the question in the room, before the referral.

Serox test cartridge
  1. 01

    Rule out before the camera

    Four in five cystoscopies find no cancer. A blood test at the first appointment could tell many patients they don't need one.

  2. 02

    Decide inside the grey zone

    Every ambiguous PSA result feeds the MRI queue, and most biopsies find nothing. Serox reads the same blood draw, before MRI or biopsy.

  3. 03

    Free up the pathway

    Fewer unnecessary scopes, scans and biopsies means shorter queues for the patients who do need them, at a fraction of the cost.

Serox Limited

A working device: drop to score on real hardware.

Serox reader with a cartridge in the tray

One instrument. Many cancers. Same box, same cartridge, same 90 seconds. The only thing that changes is the model.

  1. 01

    The whole fingerprint

    Not a single-biomarker test: the spectrum represents every molecule in the drop, so a new cancer is a new model, not a new chemistry.

  2. 02

    The doctor picks the cancer

    One cartridge per test, run for the question the clinician needs answered: bladder first, then prostate.

  3. 03

    Built on real samples

    Our models are built and tested on more than 2,600 human samples held in our own certified biobank.

Raman is century-old physics. What changed: the hardware got cheap, and machine learning can read it.

Test cartridge loaded into the Serox reader

Find out at the first appointment.

Come and see it for yourself. Investors, clinicians and partners: we will show you the device working, from drop to score.

Clinician in blue gloves holding a Serox test cartridge