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We’re excited to announce that out of hundreds of applicants, the UZH spin-off Prometheus Life Technologies located at the Switzerland Innovation Park Zurich has been selected as the winner of the Reef Starter Innovation Challenge.
Reef Starter is an innovation engine powered by Orbital Reef, a commercially developed, owned, and operated mixed-use space station to be built in low Earth orbit with Blue Origin and Sierra Space as principal partners.
“The winners of the Reef Starter Innovation Challenge provided clear commercialization strategies, technology development paths, and plans to leverage Orbital Reef,” said Shahir Gerges, Director of Orbital Reef Business Strategy, BLUE ORIGIN.
Read more about the challenge here.
Prometheus Life Technology emerged from the idea of the UZH Space Hub members Oliver Ullrich and Cora Thiel to enable the large-scale production of high-quality human tissue in microgravity to improve drug development and testing, as well as regenerative medicine. This visionary project led to a joint venture between the University of Zurich and Airbus Defence and Space.
The biotechnological process was created entirely and thanks to the UZH Space Hub: the scientific basis was developed thanks to the Swiss Parabolic Flight Program in Dübendorf and the production process was tested and validated twice on board the International Space Station (ISS). In December, the UZH spin-off Prometheus Life Technologies AG was founded, which will pave the way toward a Space Factory for the benefit of medicine on Earth.
Watch here a YouTube video about the idea behind Prometheus Life Technologies first space project.
