Tell us about your research

We build small, automated laboratories that study cancer cells in space. Our goal is to develop better cancer models that help pharmaceutical companies understand which treatments are most promising before testing them in patients.

Because cancer cells can behave differently without Earth's gravity. Research has shown that, under certain conditions, they can grow into three-dimensional structures that share some features with tumors in the human body.

This could help scientists study cancer in new ways and better understand how treatments affect it.

Cancer cells are often studied in flat layers in a laboratory. But tumors inside our bodies are three-dimensional and much more complex.

In microgravity, certain cancer cells can form 3D structures that reproduce some features of real tumors. We're investigating whether these models can tell us things that traditional methods might miss.

Yes! In May 2026, we launched our first autonomous laboratory, BIOBOX-01, carrying 3D breast-cancer cell clusters. The experiment operated in space, and we successfully recovered the biological samples. Now we're working toward longer experiments to study how cancer cells respond to different treatments.

Developing cancer treatments is expensive, and many promising drugs fail after years of research. We want to help pharmaceutical companies identify treatments that are less likely to work earlier in development, so they can focus their time and resources on the most promising ones. We're currently developing and testing the research methods needed to make this possible.