Astronaut Sultan Alneyadi sets up hardware for a protein crystal study that crystallizes biotherapeutics in microgravity and analyzes the process development.
iss069e014671 (May 30, 2023) — UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi sets up hardware for the Monoclonal Antibodies Protein Crystal Growth-2 (PCG2) experiment. PCG2 crystallizes biotherapeutics in microgravity and analyzes the process development potentially improving in-space and Earth production techniques that may shorten the development cycle for new drugs.