Speakers

Prof. Ghada Alsaleh trained as a pharmacist before completing her MSc and PhD at the University of Strasbourg. She joined the University of Oxford in 2017 as a postdoctoral researcher and, in 2021, established her independent research group at the Botnar Research Centre with support from Arthritis UK. Her research focuses on how autophagy regulates biological ageing and age-related diseases. More recently, she founded the UK’s first Space Innovation Lab, investigating how microgravity affects ageing to improve our understanding of human physiology and develop strategies to promote healthy ageing on Earth and during future space missions.
He is Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of Helogen Corporation, an orbital biomanufacturing company pioneering space-enabled production of advanced biomaterials; an Honorary Professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), where his work focuses on bioprinting and regenerative medicine in
microgravity; and a Board Member of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR). He is also the founder of the International Society for Space Manufacturing (ISSM), an initiative aimed at advancing the in-space manufacturing economy globally by fostering coordination across academia, industry, government, and emerging commercial space platforms.

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