ULTRA-EARLY CANCER DETECTION
No blood draw. No biopsy. No radiation. Detects cancer 100-200x earlier than standard imaging.
Cancer is caught too late.
Every 60 seconds, the U.S. loses one person to cancer. Not because treatments fail, but because they start too late.
The Science
Every cell in your body emits faint light as a byproduct of metabolism. These signals are invisible to the eye, but real and measurable.
Cancer cells process energy differently. The light they produce shifts: altered wavelengths, changed intensity. This happens at the metabolic level, before any mass forms.
Dr. Nirosha Murugan spent a decade building technology that reads these signals with enough precision to identify cancer at 100-200x fewer cells than standard imaging.
The Scan
We've built prototype devices and validated them in peer-reviewed studies. Now we're developing the clinical version.
A patient sits in a dark room for about fifteen minutes. A sensor reads the faint light coming off their body. AI analyzes the signal. Same visit, same day.
No blood draw. No biopsy. No radiation.
"These sensors were built to detect faint light from distant stars. We pointed them at the faint light coming off the human body, and built an AI that uses it to read the state of your cells and tell healthy tissue from cancer."
Dr. Nirosha Murugan, Chief Scientist & Co-Founder
What It Can Detect
90-92% accuracy across multiple cancer cell lines in cell cultures and animal studies. Detected cancer within 24 hours of exposure. Tumors weren't physically detectable for another 18 days. First human study targeting Q3 2026 with a Beverly Hills dermatology partner.

World's first study reading brain activity through light alone. Published in iScience (Cell Press), 2025. Tracked brain activity in 20 living subjects, cross-validated against EEG. The same platform is designed to monitor brain health after chemotherapy, concussion, and neurodegeneration.
The metabolic disruptions in cancer also appear in diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and autoimmune conditions. Published research shows light tracks those disruptions directly. HelioFlux is pursuing that. Cancer is first, but the platform is designed to go further.
If you can read metabolism through light, cancer is just the beginning.
Canada Research Chair in Tissue Biophysics. Trained in Michael Levin's lab at Tufts and the Harvard Wyss Institute. 40+ peer-reviewed publications. $1.3M+ in active research grants. She built this science. HelioFlux is how it reaches the world.
Meet the full team →Featured In
NVIDIA Inception Program Member
Ten years of published research. Three peer-reviewed papers. Validated across cancer cell lines, animal models, and living human subjects. We're raising a pre-pilot round to fund our first IRB-approved human study: the step that takes this from published science to a clinical product.