Local Media Features CCAC Students' Space Experiment
CCAC students Jason Gomes and Daniel Roth presented “The Effect(s) of Microgravity on the Dormant State of Cancer Cells” at the Moonshot Museum in Nov. 2022.
CCAC students Jason Gomes and Daniel Roth are making headlines across the region this week. Along with their faculty mentors Francis Cartieri, professor of biology, and Dr. Justin Starr, endowed professor of advanced technologies, Gomes and Roth have been featured in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and on 90.5 WESA, Pittsburgh's NPR News Station.
The pair's experiment, titled "Microgravity's Effects on the Activation of Dormant Metastatic Cancers," was selected to be sent to the International Space Station in early June as part of the national Student Spaceflight Experiments Program. A team of astronauts will conduct their experiment in the station's microgravity environment, after which it will return to Earth for harvesting and analysis.
Click here to read the WESA article "CCAC students selected to launch cancer experiment into space"