Sano

What Sano does

Sano – Centre for Computational Personalized Medicine is an International Research Foundation headquartered in Kraków, Poland, that conducts non-profit research at the intersection of computational science and personalized medicine. Its work is organized into six research groups covering Scientific Programmers, Computational Intelligence, Computational Neuroscience, Extreme-Scale Data and Computing, Medical Imaging and Robotics, and Structural and Functional Genomics. The foundation's stated mission is to advance computational personalized medicine by integrating multi-omics, population health data, medical imaging, and high-performance computing, with outputs spanning research publications, open methods, and applied events such as the Modelathon for stroke risk prediction.

The Centre operates within a European research ecosystem alongside partners including Fraunhofer ISI, the University of Sheffield, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Cyfronet, VHTNet, and the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) Institute, and it coordinates international convening activity such as the VPH 2026 conference. It holds the EU HR Excellence in Research certification, signaling alignment with European research HR standards.

Sano's revenue model is grant-based rather than commercial: funding is drawn from EU grants (e.g., Horizon Europe), Polish national research grants, and other international research grants. Commercial translation activity is housed in a separate entity, Sano Innovations, which sits alongside the foundation and is positioned to convert research outputs into applied products and services. No commercial customers, pricing model, or revenue figures are disclosed in the available data.

Name

Sano

Legal name

Sano – Centre for Computational Personalised Medicine – International Research Foundation

Website

https://sano.science

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Sano – Centre for Computational Personalized Medicine is a Kraków-based International Research Foundation that runs six computational and biomedical research groups to advance personalized medicine, funded primarily through EU and national research grants.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Computational Personalized Medicine Research

NAICS

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (54171), Research and Development in Biotechnology (except Nanobiotechnology) (541714), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) – Clinical Decision & Diagnostic Software (HLACANAD)

Keywords

• Computational personalized medicine
• Clinical decision support
• Population health analytics
• Multi-omics microbiome research
• High-performance computing health

Headquarters

HQ city

Kraków

HQ country

Poland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Research Grants and Funding: Sano operates as an International Research Foundation funded through international grants, national grants, and EU funding programs (European Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund+, Cohesion Fund, etc.)

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Sano is a non-profit International Research Foundation that develops and applies advanced computing methods for disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment assistance. It delivers its work through six research teams — Scientific Programmers (AI platforms and decision support), Computational Intelligence (population health analytics), Computational Neuroscience (AI clinical decision support), Extreme-Scale Data and Computing (large-scale HPC), Medical Imaging and Robotics (health informatics and remote medicine), and Structural and Functional Genomics (multi-omics / gut microbiome) — serving clinicians, public health bodies, and academic partners.

Product overview

Sano is a Centre for Computational Personalized Medicine that operates as a research-focused organization developing sophisticated computer methods for disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment assistance. The organization consists of six interconnected research teams offering specialized computational medicine services: Scientific Programmers provide AI platforms and IT infrastructure; Computational Intelligence delivers population health analytics; Computational Neuroscience develops AI clinical decision support systems; Extreme-Scale Data and Computing handles large-scale data processing; Medical Imaging and Robotics focuses on healthcare visualization and remote medicine; and Structural and Functional Genomics studies gut microbiome through multi-omics techniques. Sano Innovations (sanoinnovations.com) is a separate commercial entity.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability8 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Fraunhofer ISIcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partner listed as a key collaborator. Fraunhofer ISI (Institute for Systems and Innovation Research) is a leading research organization in technology and innovation studies.
• University of SheffieldcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational academic partner collaborating on joint research initiatives including the Insigneo/Sano Modelathon for computational modeling of ischemic stroke.
• Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZ Juelich)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGerman research center listed as a strategic partner, collaborating on computational medicine research.
• Klaster LifeScienceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPolish life science cluster partner collaborating on healthcare innovation initiatives in the regional ecosystem.
• CyfronetcoreTechnology or IntegrationPolish HPC infrastructure provider (Academic Computer Center CYFRONET) enabling access to advanced computing resources for Sano's computational medicine research.
• VHTNet (Virtual Human Twins)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPart of the Virtual Human Twins consortium - a major EU-funded project focused on creating digital twins for healthcare applications.
• VHP InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVirtual Physiological Human Institute - EU network promoting computational biomedicine and physiological modeling.
• GAIAminorOthersRegional innovation cluster organization listed among Sano's partner network.
• AI w zdrowiu (AI in Health)minorOthersPolish initiative focused on artificial intelligence applications in healthcare.
• GEMINIminorOthersResearch consortium partner network member.
• PFSZminorOthersPolish healthcare sector organization in Sano's partner network.
• PTIminorOthersPolish information technology association partnership.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Owkin: European AI-for-health company applying federated learning to clinical data and multi-omics. Comparable in targeting AI clinical decision support and multi-omics analytics, but structured as a venture-backed commercial entity.
• Tempus AI: US-based health-AI company combining multi-omics, clinical data, and AI decision support at scale. Comparable in product scope (population health analytics, AI clinical decision support, multi-omics), though operating commercially with significantly more capital.
• Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology (Mount Sinai): US academic institute combining genomics, AI, and clinical decision support for personalised medicine. Comparable in integrating multi-omics, AI, and clinical translation, but operating from a US hospital system rather than EU grant funding.

Broad incumbents

• Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC): Spanish supercomputing centre running major life-sciences and computational-medicine programs with EU funding. Comparable to Sano's Extreme-Scale Data and Computing team in applying HPC to personalised medicine and biomedical simulation.
• Fraunhofer Society (Institutes): Germany's applied research network including medical informatics and computational medicine institutes. Sano already partners with Fraunhofer ISI; comparable in mission, public funding model, and translational research focus.
• European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI): Europe's flagship public bioinformatics and life-sciences data infrastructure organisation, applying large-scale compute to genomics and biomedical data. Comparable to Sano in its public-good, compute-intensive life-sciences mission and European scope.
• Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres: Germany's largest scientific organisation with health-focused centres (e.g., Helmholtz Munich) running large-scale computational medicine and population health programs. Comparable as a publicly funded, multi-site European health-computing research body.
• Wellcome Sanger Institute: UK-based genomics and computational biology research institute applying large-scale data and AI to human health. Comparable to Sano's multi-omics and structural/functional genomics focus at scale.

Regional players

• Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Computational Medicine): Major European university hospital running computational medicine and digital health research programs, with strong EU funding ties. Comparable in mission and EU positioning, though embedded in a clinical provider rather than a standalone foundation.

Direct peers

• Sano Innovations: Commercial spin-out of the Sano research foundation, translating foundation IP (AI clinical decision support, population health analytics, multi-omics) into market-ready products. Directly comparable as the explicit commercial counterpart of the subject company.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/sanoscience
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCDZ_8TcjMWUG2ZcgKKgfpwQ
• Facebookfacebook.com/sano.science
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sanoscience
• Instagraminstagram.com/sanoscience

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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