2018 Tissue Chips in Space Projects
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In October 2018, NCATS, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space announced four two-year awards for approximately $4.98 million to use tissue chip technology to better understand the mechanisms of disease and the effectiveness of potential treatments in the extreme environment of space. The projects are part of a collaboration to conduct translational research on board the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory.
Learn more about the projects awarded in 2018:
Emulate, Inc., Boston
Organ-Chips as a Platform for Studying Effects of Space on Human Enteric Physiology: Interactions of Epithelial Mucosa with Sensory Neurons and Microbiome
Principal Investigators: Christopher D. Hinojosa, M.S., and Katia Karalis, M.D., Ph.D.
Implementation Partner: Space Tango
Grant Number: 1-UG3-TR-002595-01
First Flight: March 6, 2020
University of Florida, Gainesville
Electrical Stimulation of Human Myocytes in Microgravity: An In Vitro Model to Evaluate Therapeutics to Counteract Muscle Wasting
Principal Investigator: Siobhan Malany, Ph.D.
Implementation Partner: Space Tango
Grant Number: 1-UG3-TR-002598-01
First Flight: Dec. 6, 2020
Second Flight: July 14, 2022
Stanford University, Stanford, California
Effect of Microgravity on Drug Responses Using Engineered Heart Tissues
Principal Investigators: Joseph C. Wu, M.D., Ph.D., and Beth L. Pruitt, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Implementation Partner: BioServe Space Technologies at the University of Colorado, Boulder
Grant Number: 1-UG3-TR-002588-01
First Flight: Dec. 6, 2020
University of Washington, Seattle and Johns Hopkins University
A Human iPSC-Based 3-D Microphysiological System for Modeling Cardiac Dysfunction in Microgravity*
Principal Investigator: Deok-Ho Kim, Ph.D., M.S.
Implementation Partners: The Ohio State University and BioServe Space Technologies at the University of Colorado, Boulder
Grant Number: 1-UG3-EB-028094-01
First Flight: March 6, 2020
*Funded by NIH’s NIBIB and NCATS.