Hesperos Inc.
Marcella Grillo is a skilled surface chemist intern at Hesperos Inc. since April 2019, bringing valuable experience from a previous role as a chemistry research assistant at the University of Central Florida from December 2016 to April 2019. Educated at the University of Central Florida, Marcella Grillo earned a degree in Chemistry with a focus on Biochemistry from 2013 to 2017.
Hesperos Inc.
Hesperos, Inc. is a leader in efforts to characterize an individual's biology with Human-on-a-Chip microfluidic systems. Founders Michael L. Shuler and James J. Hickman have been at the forefront of every major scientific discovery in this realm, from individual organ-on-a-chip constructs to fully functional, interconnected multi-organsystems. With a mission to revolutionize toxicology testing as well as efficacy evaluation for drug discovery, the company has created pumpless platforms with serum-free cellular mediums that allow multi-organ system communication and integrated computational PKPD modeling of live physiological responses utilizing functional readouts from neurons, cardiac, muscle, barrier tissues and neuromuscular junctions as well as responses from liver, pancreas and barrier tissues.