MIMETAS, the market leader in Organ-on-a-chip products, announced that the National Cancer Institute recently awarded them a phase 1 SBIR grant totally $300,000 to develop personalized prostate cancer-on-a-chip models that can more accurately reproduce the tumor micro-environment. MIMETAS has built a consortium with the University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHSC) and MD Anderson to build the next generation platform for cancer drug screening and personal therapy prediction.