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HESPEROS AT NCATS-NASA STATE-OF-THE-SCIENCE MEETING We’ve been forging new frontiers with our human-on-a-chip multi-organ models—could the next one take us into space?  Last month, we traveled to Washington, DC, to attend a workshop with officials from … Read More

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We were proud to join hundreds of Florida’s executives, scientists, researchers, investors, legislators, and service providers from the biopharmaceutical, medical device, and healthIT at the recent BioFlorida Annual Conference to celebrate Florida innovation and achievements — … Read More

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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