Siobhan Malany,
Associate Professor,
University of Florida and Founder, Micro-gRx
Dr. Malany was Director of Chemical Biology at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute when she started Micro-gRx, INC after receiving funding from Space Florida to develop a human muscle cell system called a “lab-on-chip” that launched to the International Space Station in 2018. She transitioned to the College of Pharmacy at the University of Florida where she has advanced an engineered “Human muscle-on-Chip” that tests the feasibility of microfluidic devices embedded with 3D myobundles connected to electrodes to track muscle function in the presence and absence of clinical drug candidates for treatment of age-related muscle atrophy. These tissue chips launched to the ISS in December 2020 to investigate the effects of microgravity on muscle biology. Dr. Malany was recently interviewed by Authority Magazine and was a guest on “Houston, we have a podcast.” Dr. Malany holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Iowa and completed postdoctoral training in pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego.
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