Hesperos Inc.
Victoria Long is a highly experienced professional currently serving as Principal Operations Analyst at Hesperos Inc. since April 2023. Prior to this role, Victoria accumulated over two decades of experience at NASA, where key positions included System Manager and Materials Engineer. Notable contributions include serving as Launch Vehicle Materials and Processes System Manager for the Commercial Crew Program from 2016 to 2023, and as the ISS Payloads Materials and Processes Discipline Lead from 2011 to 2016. Victoria's academic background includes a Master's degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Florida and a Bachelor's degree in Materials Engineering from Auburn University.
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.