SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Researchers from the University of California, San Diego and Axiom Space astronauts are testing a potential cure for cancer in space.
Scientists from UCSD’s Sanford Stem Cell Institute are working in collaboration with Axiom Space and the JM Foundation on the research project called Cancer in LEO-3, which aims to test how cancer cells behave in response to radiation and microgravity in low Earth orbit (LEO).
Catriona Jamieson, M.D., Ph.D. at the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center at UCSD Medical Center in La Jolla, is the primary investigator on the project, in partnership with researcher Jessica Pham.
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The study focuses on the anti-cancer drug “rebecsinib” which was developed by Dr. Jamieson and her lab. Researchers say rebecsinib has the potential to fight 23 different types of cancer…