Laura Hertel,
Founder & CEO
$63,000 - Awarded January 2024

Nuapoch, Inc.

Oakland, CA

About
Nuapoch, Inc. is a start-up company seeking to develop non-hormonal, effective, and reversible contraceptives by targeting sperm maturation factors. The company was founded in January 2024 by Dr. Laura Hertel and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

Our Grant
MCI is supporting Nuapoch’s efforts to determine the three-dimensional structure and key functional domains of an epididymal protein involved in sperm maturation, to enable its targeting with new contraceptive drugs.​