Siobhan Malany's Biography

Siobhan Malany, Associate Professor, University of Florida

Dr. Malany joined the faculty at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy after several years in the private sector leading receptor pharmacology drug discovery efforts in San Diego biotech and at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in Florida. Her research involves leveraging the physiological relevance of patient-specific cells in combination with phenotypic microscopy and chemogenomic approaches to measure changes in drug responses to physical stressors to better predict human drug efficacy for cardiometabolic diseases. In Florida, she became interested in space medicine and is studying the effects of microgravity on human muscle biology using an automated tissue chip system as a microphysiological model of age-related musculoskeletal disease. Dr. Malany started Micro-gRx with seed funding from Space Florida and CASIS and was named one of 2017 Faces of Technology by Florida’s High Tech Corridor and in 2018, her lab-on-a-chip payload launched to the ISS on Cygnus NG-10 vehicle. Shortly thereafter, she received a mayoral proclamation for her achievements in STEM.

Dr. Malany received her Ph.D. in organic chemistry and enzymology at the University of Iowa and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego and at the Max-Planck Institute for Brain research in Frankfurt, Germany.