Company type | Privately held company |
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Industry | Space industry, biotechnology |
Founded | 2012 |
Founder | Yossi Yamin, Martin Aebi (Ido Priel left his active position) |
Headquarters | , Switzerland |
Products | SPMG, NEXUS, DIDO, SPAd, SPID, MOTI |
Services | Microgravity research |
Number of employees | apx 20 |
Website | spacepharma.health |
SpacePharma is a Swiss–Israeli biotechnology company with a primary focus on conducting scientific experiments in microgravity conditions. The company was the first fully private, commercially oriented company established with the specific intention to conduct pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) and manufacturing in space.[1]
The company was founded by Yossi Yamin, a former Commander of an Israeli Satellite Unit in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). As of the mid-2020s, SpacePharma has offices in Herzliya, Israel; Courgenay, Switzerland; and Palo Alto, California, with a Space Life Sciences Lab in Exploration Park, Florida, US.[2]