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Recent News About Hesperos and Human-on-a-Chip Technology

Hesperos Human-on-a-Chip Technology Awarded $4 Million Phase IIb SBIR Grant – the first tissue chip company to receive Phase IIb grant

By Hesperos | September 6, 2018 | 0 Comments
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ORLANDO, FLA – September 6, 2018 — Hesperos, Inc. announced today the receipt of a $4 million three-year NIH Phase IIb Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center … Read More

Hesperos To Create Multi-Organ Human-On-A-Chip Model to Test Alzheimer’s Drugs

By Hesperos | August 31, 2018 | 0 Comments
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Hesperos, Inc., announced today the receipt of a NIH Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Aging (NIA) to help create a new multi-organ “human-on-a-chip” … Read More

UniChip paper selected as top 10% of papers published in Lab on a Chip

By Hesperos | August 21, 2018 | 0 Comments
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Dr. Shuler’s “UniChip enables long-term recirculating unidirectional perfusion with gravity-driven flow for microphysiological systems” has been selected by the handling Editor as one of the top 10% of papers published in Lab on a Chip. This selection … Read More

Hesperos, Inc. Among GrowFL Florida Companies to Watch Finalists

By Hesperos | August 16, 2018 | 0 Comments
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(ORLANDO, Fla.)  Hesperos, Inc. has announced that it is among the first round of finalists for the 2018 Florida Companies to Watch honor, recently announced by GrowFL.  The awards event – now in its eighth year – honors … Read More

First Functional Stem-Cell Derived Neuromuscular Junction Model Licensed

By Hesperos | April 25, 2018 | 0 Comments
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ORLANDO, FLA – April 25, 2018 — Hesperos, Inc. has increased its pioneering human-on-a-chip drug testing capabilities by adding a new in vitro, human-human neuromuscular model to its patented multi-organ microfluidic device systems. Abnormal function of … Read More

Overcoming a Big Barrier: Hesperos CEO awarded for Blood-Brain Barrier Innovation

By Hesperos | March 19, 2018 | 0 Comments
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Getting drugs past the neuroprotective blood-brain barrier (BBB) has been a perplexing problem and formidable challenge for researchers and pharmaceutical companies alike. Hesperos’s creation of a microfluidic model capable of mimicking in vivo characteristics of the … Read More

Hesperos Multi-Organ System Featured in Science

By Hesperos | March 14, 2018 | 0 Comments
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The challenge: Build microfluidic devices that can keep cells alive in a setting that mimics specific organs or tissues, and incorporate biosensors to measure the cells’ physiology. The goal: Mimic diseases and test drug responses that … Read More