SpacePharma

Our mission is to leverage the miniaturized microgravity lab technology, enabling unprecedented possibilities to develop new drugs in Space.

Created: 2019-01-22

Updated: 2024-02-24

Company - SpacePharma

Founded
Country
2012
Israel
Funding
$1M+
Website
SpacePharma
Social
SpacePharma

Product/Service

Classification
In-Space Manufacturing
Category
Microgravity Flight Service (LEO)
ISS Utilization Service
Microgravity Science
Fields
Automated Microgravity Laboratory
Status
Demonstrated, Active
First launch
2017

The company retains a full end-to-end satellite service, as well as constructing its own autonomous satellites, solar panels, telecommunications, liquid systems, pumps, reaction chambers, sensors, spectrometers: everything that enables science to be efficient in orbit, while lowering the cost and encouraging collaboration among scientists to send multiple experiments on a single payload.

We have two separate types of technology: organ-on-a-chip, with which we can grow tissue cultures or liver cells and lab-on-a-chip technology particularly relates to the chemistry aspect of the flow of liquid and its chemical structure in space. In the absence of gravity, molecules do not remain in phases and appear arranged in a uniform order and can be studied. We’re specifically concerned about studying how reagents (or solutions) can be converted into high-yield crystals.

SpacePharma launched to the ISS aboard all-private Axiom-1 Mission.

SpacePharma, a deeptech specializing in the development of research and production laboratories in orbit – also known as mini laboratories of the size of a shoe box to be sent into space – has recently settled their European office at the International Space University’s (ISU) central campus in Strasbourg, France.

ZEPRION EXPERIMENT

LAUNCH ON MISSION NG-19 TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 
SpacePharma simply microgravity TM will explore, by using its state-of-the-art miniaturized laboratory known as SPNR2, the potential of microgravity for achieving the co-crystallization of a small molecule bound to a folding intermediate of the prion protein, a key player in devastating disorders of the brain called prion diseases.

News, Research, Projects and Patents

Title Type Date Summary
Spacepharma wants to manufacture medicine among the stars News 2021-02-14

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