National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences awards more than $2 million to support a tissue-chip study in space

Siobhan Malany
Siobhan Malany, Pharmacodynamics

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences has awarded more than $2 million in supplemental funding to support a tissue-chip study in space led by Siobhan Malany, Ph.D., an associate professor of pharmacodynamics in the University of Florida College of Pharmacy. Her research focuses on muscle biology changes in microgravity as a model of age-related muscle disease. The new funding allows access to the national tissue chip database managed at the University of Pittsburgh to deposit drug efficacy and toxicity data generated from Malany’s system to compare with other cell-based data and animal studies as a method of standardization for preclinical therapeutic testing.