Current Projects / CLOT-LESS
Flight complete · Analysis underway
UBC · CAN-RGX 2025–26
Clot dissolution
in microgravity.
My interest in how medications work has taken me from the pharmacy into a rather different setting: a reduced-gravity research flight. With Team CLOT-LESS, I’m exploring how tenecteplase, a clot-dissolving medication, behaves in microgravity.
01 / The mission
A familiar medication.
A different environment.
How does reduced gravity affect the way a blood clot dissolves? Our team brought a clot model from the bench into parabolic flight to investigate that question, with the longer-term aim of informing medical care during spaceflight.
This is an in-vitro study using porcine blood clots. Flight data analysis is underway.
Read the mission brief →02 / The experiment
A small platform.
Two ways to see change.
Eight microchannels hold the clots. Four receive tenecteplase and four receive saline. Pressure sensors track resistance across the channels, while high-frame-rate video captures how the clots change.
We compare the flight measurements with ground experiments over matched twenty-second windows.
03 / My part in the team
From behind the camera
to aboard the aircraft.
I flew as a Mission Specialist during our September 2026 campaign. My work centres on capturing what happens inside the channels and helping share the research beyond our team.
- Imaging: coordinating video capture and analysis to complement the pressure measurements.
- Scientific communication: helping turn the experiment and its questions into something others can follow.
- Sponsorship: coordinating funding and support that helped bring the project to flight.
Medicine, pharmacy & engineering.
I work alongside Adrian Tabari, Niyoosha Yoosefi, Moeid Elahi, and Roxanna Tabari, with scientific and operational supervision from our Principal Investigator, Dr. Matthew Turnock.
Meet the team →04 / Beyond the flight
What comes next.
In progress
Reviewing the data
We’re reviewing the pressure and imaging records from the flight campaign. Results and publications will follow after analysis.
Abstract accepted
Sharing the design
Our abstract has been accepted for an oral presentation at the 77th International Astronautical Congress in Antalya, Türkiye, in October 2026.
In development
Bringing it to classrooms
Three STEM modules will introduce students to the human body in microgravity, medicine in space, and our CAN-RGX journey.
05 / Shared effort
The support behind the science.
CAN-RGX, organised by SEDS-Canada with support from the Canadian Space Agency and the National Research Council of Canada, made the flight campaign possible. Our partners contributed funding, medication, equipment, and team materials.
Project update: October 2026 · Images courtesy of Team CLOT-LESS.
The full project at clotless.ca ↗