CASIS and NCATS Announce Five Projects Selected from International Space Station Funding Opportunity Focused on Human Physiology ResearchNCATS issued five initial two-year awards in response to a funding opportunity (link is external) to use tissue chip technology for translational research onboard the International Space Station ― National Laboratory (ISS-NL) for the benefit of human health on Earth. During the first phase of the Tissue Chips in Space initiative, researchers will develop and test tissue chips on the ISS-NL in a microgravity environment. In the second phase, they will further demonstrate the functional use of the tissue chip models for more defined experiments on the ISS-NL.
