Our mission

At Navigenics, we provide clinically guided genetic analysis with the goal of empowering individuals to act based on an understanding of their genetic predispositions

Our mission is to improve health outcomes across the population by providing clinically actionable, personalized genetic insights to motivate behavior change, and we believe that a healthcare professional should be an integral part of that process.

The company was founded in 2006 by David Agus, M.D., an oncologist, and Dietrich Stephan, Ph.D., a human geneticist, with the overall goal of improving personal health. Our clinically guided genetic testing services were born out of scientific discoveries initially made possible by the Human Genome Project, a 13-year federal and international collaboration to identify every single human gene.

We believe that genetic testing and analysis will become the foundation and standard of care that will make personalized medicine a reality. We believe that this outcome is best pursued by working closely with state and federal regulators to set industry standards for personal genomic testing services.