Congratulations to Sylvain Costes and Candice Tahimic and their research teams for being awarded grants in NASA’s Human Research Program recent selection. NASA selected 21 proposals to help answer questions about astronaut health and performance during future long-duration missions beyond low-Earth orbit. The proposals will investigate biological, physiological, and behavioral adaptations during spaceflight in support of NASA’s crewed Artemis missions to the Moon and future human exploration of Mars.
Mapping peripheral immune signatures of mouse and human responses to space radiation for biomarker identification
Principal Investigator: Sylvain Costes, PhD (NASA Ames Research Center)
Co-I/Science PI: Egle Cekanaviciute, PhD (NASA Ames Research Center)
Co-I: Eloise Pariset, PhD (NASA Ames Research Center, USRA)
Collaborator: Susanna Rosi, PhD (University of California, San Francisco)
Cardiovascular responses to simulated spaceflight: molecular signatures and surrogate outputs to measure CVD risk
Principal Investigator: Candice Tahimic, PhD (NASA Ames Research Center, KBR)
Co-I/Institutional PI: April E. Ronca, PhD (NASA Ames Research Center)
Co-I: David Goukassian, MD, PhD (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
Collaborator: Michael Delp, PhD (Florida State University)
Collaborator: Linda Rubinstein nee Guttmann, PhD (NASA Ames Research Center, USRA)
Including these two awards, the 21 winning proposals are from 14 institutions in 10 states and will receive a total of approximately $4.3 million during a one- to two-year period. NASA selected the projects from 129 proposals received in response to the 2019 Human Exploration Research Opportunities Appendices A and B. Science and technology experts from academia, government, and industry reviewed the proposals. A complete list of selected proposals can be found here.
