This is a $705,790 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Prairie View A&M University, a historically black land-grant university in Texas. The grant supports research to develop and validate computational models for predicting biological damage from mixed field radiation exposures, such as those expected in space environments. The research aims to reduce uncertainties in cancer risk models by studying chromosome aberrations induced by chronic low-dose...
This is a $143,862.18 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Texas Southern University, a minority-serving and historically Black college and university located in Houston, Texas. The grant supports research to assess the sensitivity of human fibroblasts and epithelial cells to different types of radiation exposure, using various genetic and transcriptional markers. No set-aside designation is indicated. Through its prime...
This is a $180,535 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Texas Southern University (TSU), a public Historically Black College and University (HBCU) located in Houston, Texas. The grant is for a research project titled "Antibody Somatic Hypermutation Under Spaceflight Conditions" which aims to study the effects of spaceflight on the immune system. This builds on a previous space experiment that suggested spaceflight can decrease the frequency of...
This $179,871.47 federal grant award to Texas A&M University was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study the effects of space radiation and microgravity on the cardiovascular system. The research aims to understand how space flight imposes unique stressors on astronauts, particularly the damage and fibrosis that can occur in the heart and vasculature due to radiation exposure. The grant will fund a series of mouse studies using X-ray, heavy ion, and...
This is a $48,228.22 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA to Prairie View A&M University, a minority-serving institution, to explore the impact of a NASA robotics pre-engineering camp on underrepresented and underserved high school students. The award has a period of performance ending on December 6, 2022. Prairie View A&M University is a public, historically black land-grant university with extensive experience delivering educational, research, and community services to federal...
This federal contract award, valued at $4,684,568.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Prairie View A&M University, a historically black land-grant institution, under a cooperative agreement. The contract supports research into the fundamental combustion physics of liquid fuels at high pressures and in low-gravity environments, which has applications for improving the design of combustion engines like those used in aircraft. The research aims to...
Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) received a $499,599 research grant from NASA's Shared Services Center, awarded October 1, 2022, with an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2027. The grant supports PVAMU's Cooperative Agricultural Research Center in installing and operating a Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) rain gauge at the university's research farm in southern Texas. This project aligns with NASA's broader mission to enhance ground validation networks for the GPM satellite...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $198,354.38 grant for research to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. This university-led project aims to systematically characterize changes in microbial cell growth dynamics, aggregation, drug resistance, and virulence across simulated micro-, lunar (1/6 g), and Martian (1/3 g) gravity environments. The research will utilize spaceflight...
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), a historically Black land-grant institution and the largest public historically Black college and university in the United States, received a $299,616 research grant from a civilian federal agency's Shared Services Center, with an ultimate completion date of March 10, 2027. The award, announced on March 11, 2024, supports research evaluating the adaptive effects of simulated microgravity and lunar regolith simulant on...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $298,974.04 grant to the University of Wisconsin - Madison, operating as Research and Sponsored Programs under the University of Wisconsin System, to conduct research on the effects of altered gravity on nuclear morphology and cytoskeletal organization in fibroblasts during parabolic flight. The research will involve culturing cells in specialized hardware to control temperature and humidity, fixing the cells at different...
This federal contract award to Prairie View A&M University, a historically Black land-grant university in Texas, supports a research study on the combined effects of microgravity and space radiation on human cells. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is providing $722,711.44 in grant funding for this project, which aims to establish a baseline for understanding the molecular and cellular responses to simultaneous exposure to these space environmental stressors. The research will investigate protein expression, gene pathways, and chromosome aberrations in human fibroblast and epithelial cell lines under simulated microgravity conditions using specialized irradiation equipment. The results are expected to inform the assessment and management of human health risks for future Moon and Mars missions. This grant award does not have a set-aside designation.