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ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Enzychem Lifesciences (KOSDAQ: 183490), announced today that NASA s Human Research Program has awarded $150K in grant funding to conduct research on its lead compound EC-18, and how it impacts astronaut health and performance during future long-duration missions beyond low-Earth orbit. In this study, EC-18 will be investigated whether it can provide protection against both radiation and pathogen-induced tissue damage and inflammation.
The proposal was one of eight proposals selected by NASA, out of a total of 66 proposals submitted. Enzychem is conducting this study in collaboration with Dr. Cheryl Nickerson, professor at Arizona State University, who first demonstrated that some pathogenic microbes (Salmonella) exhibit enhanced pathogenicity in space and also pioneered use of spaceflight analog cell culture systems to develop 3-D biomimetic tissue models to study host-pathogen interactions