Shelby Giza is the Director of Scientific Business Strategy. While ensuring alignment with the corporate mission, Shelby works collaboratively to oversee the strategic and tactical integration of health and technology applications for R&D and manufacturing in space. She provides integral, evidence-based insight to both internal and external stakeholders ensuring the intuitive design of hardware and facilities for a growing variety of science initiatives. Shelby continues to advance best practice mechanisms throughout the ideation of manufacturing patient therapeutics in space, and she harnesses results to contribute to low-Earth orbit market development with partnering research institutions, industry, and government professionals.
Shelby has more than 20 years of research experience in numerous disease areas. Her career has been focused on translational medicine, disease mechanisms and biologic therapeutic modalities. Most notably, Shelby was involved in the research & development behind NIO752 (currently in Phase I for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Alzheimer’s), Beovu® (approved in 2019 for Neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration and Diabetic Macular Edema) and the SYNERGY™ Drug-Eluting Stent (approved in 2015). She participated in the DARPA ADEPT:PROTECT program while at Novartis, contributing to the advancement of mRNA vaccine technology, years before the COVID-19 pandemic. Shelby also brings ISS-user experience after supporting the research and development of a 3D human muscle tissue chip in the Malany Lab at the University Florida, in collaboration with Space Tango, flown on the SpaceX CRS-21 mission.