This $1,400,000.00 federal grant award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a renowned nonprofit academic medical center. The grant is intended to fund research on the psychological risks posed by the environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight for astronauts, particularly the adverse cognitive or behavioral effects of long-duration exposure to an isolated,...
This federal contract award, valued at $849,959.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), for research on the medical and psychological risks posed to astronauts during prolonged spaceflight missions. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is a grant for research with a completion date of September 8, 2025. MGH, a 999-bed medical center and the...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC20K1500, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The General Hospital Corporation (MGH) to conduct research on understanding human performance under various partial-gravity loadings. The $400,000 grant aims to support NASA's crewed mission strategies, particularly for Mars landings, which require the crew to use robotic teleoperation within 24 hours. This contract is not set aside for any specific designation. MGH, a...
This is a $666,025.15 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), to study operational performance and physiological changes during long-duration spaceflight analog missions in the NASA HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog) facility. The project aims to 1) characterize changes in operational task performance, brain and systemic physiology, and identify predictors of...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $940,352 grant to The General Hospital Corporation (Massachusetts General Hospital) for a 30-day head-down tilt study to investigate countermeasures for spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome (SANS), a risk to long-duration spaceflight. The study will provide detailed neurophysiological and fluid shift assessment tools to complement standard ocular measures used for SANS diagnosis and monitoring. This award is not...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC20K0844, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian government agency, to The General Hospital Corporation's Research Management Division, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The $849,622 grant will fund a collaborative research project between MGH and the University of California at Davis to assess individual and team problem-solving skills, with a focus on team coherence, adaptability, and trust, in the context of future...
This $1,101,114.00 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Rush University Medical Center, a non-profit hospital and medical research institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The grant is responsive to NASA's Behavioral Health and Performance Gap (BMED5) and Sleep Gap research areas, which aim to identify individual characteristics that predict successful adaptation and performance in isolated, confined, and extreme environments, as well as indicators of...
This is a $2,476,960 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc., a research hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School. The grant will fund a 4-year research study to determine the short- and long-term effects of various types of space radiation, including iron, proton, oxygen-16, and mixed beams, on cognition, motor abilities, fatigue, anxiety, and cardiovascular and brain health in Alzheimer's disease mouse models....
This federal contract award to Brigham & Women's Hospital, a subsidiary of Partners Healthcare System Incorporated, is for a $140,753 grant to develop a dynamic lighting schedule (DLS) that uses blue-enriched and blue-depleted white light to improve astronaut alertness, circadian rhythm alignment, and sleep during space missions. The work will be performed at the Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) facility as a precursor to in-flight testing aboard the International Space Station (ISS)...
This is a $1,876,306.00 grant award from NASA to Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) to conduct a research study on the impact of hadron radiation exposure on brain function and neurocognition for astronauts on deep space missions. The study aims to determine the severity of impairments in executive function performance, changes in neurotransmitter release, and effects on sleep and recovery after exposure to high energy protons, oxygen, and silicon particles. The research will address key...