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Abstract Marine ecosystem is a treasure house of drugs as a plenty of marine organisms possess interesting bioactive properties that has to be explored further to find applications in the biomedical and pharmaceutical arena. Sea urchin is a seafloor dwelling invertebrate belonging to the phylum Echinodermata is having high nutritional and medicinal properties. It is rich in vitamins, minerals, proteins, fatty acids and polysaccharides and possess anticancer, anticoagulant/antithrombotic, antimicrobial and antioxidant properties. The extracts and hydrolysates of sea urchin have various bioactive compounds especially glycosides, acid polysaccharide, sphingoid, glycolipids, sulfate, polysaccharides and phospholipids. Owing to its wide range of biomedical properties, the present review aims to summarize the therapeutic applications of valuable bioactive components in sea urchins. This review could act as a key reference to identify the new potential bioactive molecules in the drug industry and unravels the applications of sea urchin.