AI-Powered Liquid Biopsy: From Bench to Bedside
Client Type: Early-stage diagnostics company applying AI to cancer detection
Challenge:
The client sought to replace traditional invasive biopsies with a noninvasive, AI-driven imaging and analytics platform capable of real-time cancer detection. The technology showed strong promise across multiple cancers but faced a crowded diagnostics landscape, complex regulatory pathways, and questions about market entry strategy and investor appeal.
Approach:
Health Business Group performed a comprehensive market assessment spanning devices, pathology services, and AI-enabled diagnostics. We combined deep secondary research with expert and clinician interviews to quantify market size, evaluate adoption barriers, and analyze reimbursement and regulatory implications.
Working closely with the client’s founders and inventors, HBG prioritized skin cancer as the optimal entry point—balancing market size, clinical access, and regulatory feasibility—and mapped a 3–5-year path toward FDA Pre-Market Approval. We also developed investor-ready materials highlighting differentiation on accuracy, usability, and cost.
Impact:
HBG’s work enabled the startup to clarify its positioning as an AI-first diagnostic platform, focus resources on a credible first indication, and raise early investment to fund pivotal studies. The strategy established a foundation for platform expansion into additional cancer markets.
Why It Matters:
In AI-based diagnostics, success depends on choosing the right first proof point. HBG helps deep-tech founders translate ambitious science into focused business plans that investors and regulators can embrace.
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