NawaBio Space
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About Nawa Bio Space

From orbital research to everyday care.

We started with a simple observation: the highest-quality protein crystals ever grown were grown in space. Nawa Bio Space exists to turn that observation into a manufacturing platform pharmaceutical companies can actually use.
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Our story

Nawa Bio Space was founded by a small group of crystallographers and space-hardware engineers who had spent years running microgravity experiments for other people’s research programmes. We kept seeing the same result: crystals grown without gravity-driven convection came out larger, cleaner, and more uniform than anything grown on Earth.

What was missing wasn’t the science — it was a company willing to build the hardware, the logistics, and the regulatory pathway needed to turn that result into a repeatable manufacturing process. That is the company we built.

How we work

Science first

Every flight campaign is designed around a testable hypothesis about crystal structure, not a marketing milestone.

Manufacturing, not novelty

We optimise for repeatability and cost at scale from day one — orbit is a production step, not a stunt.

Patient outcome as the metric

A better crystal only matters if it becomes a formulation a patient can inject at home.

Leadership

KR

Dr. Kiera Roswell

Co-founder & CEO

TM

Tomas Mendel

Co-founder & Chief Engineer

SA

Sana Aldridge

Head of Formulation

Haveamoleculethatbelongsinorbit?

Tell us about your biologic and we’ll assess it for microgravity crystallisation within two weeks.