Description of Business

6 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2018

Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Description of Business

Note1. Description of Business

Nature of operations

Organovo Holdings, Inc., (“Organovo Holdings,” and collectively with its subsidiaries, “the Company”) is a biotechnology company pioneering a unique set of therapeutic and drug profiling capabilities based on its revolutionary ability to 3D bioprint liver tissues that emulate human biology and disease. The Company is developing its in vivo liver tissues to treat a range of life-threatening, orphan diseases, for which there are limited treatment options other than organ transplantation. The Company’s program focused on an orphan disease known as Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency (“A1AT”), received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) orphan drug designation in December 2017 and is targeted for an Initial New Drug Application (“IND”) filing in calendar-year 2020. Organovo Holdings is also capitalizing on its foundational ability to characterize highly specialized human cells and to build robust, functional human tissues by creating a range of novel in vitro disease modeling platforms, including a broad set of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (“NAFLD”) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (“NASH”) conditions.

Except where specifically noted or the context otherwise requires, references to “Organovo Holdings,” “the Company,” “we,” “our,” and “us” in these notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements refers to Organovo Holdings, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Organovo, Inc., Samsara Sciences, Inc., and Organovo U.K., Ltd. In March 2018, the U.K. operations were combined with Organovo, Inc.’s operations.