This is a $243,899.00 grant award from the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private research university. The award funds space biology research addressing the Space Biology Program's core research questions, focusing on cell and molecular biology. The award does not utilize a set-aside designation, reflecting RPI's strong capabilities in securing federal research contracts and grants. RPI has a...
This federal contract award, with the identification number 80NSSC20K0307, was granted to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private research university located in Troy, New York. The $44,000 grant is for research aimed at elucidating the global impact of environmental stressors on biological systems in the spaceflight environment. The award is part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) GeneLab data repository program, which supports hypothesis-driven spaceflight...
This is a $437,506 grant award to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for research on abiotic RNA polymerization in early Earth environments. The research aims to investigate plausible pathways for the emergence of life on Earth and potential implications for extraterrestrial life, focusing on the challenge of achieving prebiotically feasible RNA polymerization. The project will explore alternative, more general and robust...
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has been awarded a $550,000 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to develop an intelligent coupling approach for modeling and predicting cryogenic propellant behavior during long-term storage in microgravity conditions. The three-year research contract will support NASA's efforts to advance storage technologies for liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellants used in space launch vehicles. As prime...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) for research related to exploiting untapped data and information resources in Earth science. The $279,410.00 grant covers RPI's participation in the development and analysis of use cases, defining semantic encoding requirements, developing and testing prototypes, contributing to technical reports and publications, and participating in working groups and workshops. The...
This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC25K7141, is a $49,300 grant provided by the Shared Services Center (an agency of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private research university located in Troy, New York. The grant will fund a 3-day hybrid workshop in Spring 2025 in Washington, DC that will bring together experts from various disciplines, including prebiotic chemistry, origin of life, and astrochemistry, to explore how...
This federal contract award, valued at $426,783.00, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private research university located in Troy, New York. The award is a grant for research focused on understanding how spaceflight factors, including microgravity and space radiation, affect somatic stem cell-based tissue regeneration. This research is critical for supporting...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private university and non-profit organization located in Troy, New York. The $399,987.00 grant will enable a thorough characterization at the cellular and molecular level of the effects of spaceflight on bone marrow progenitor cells. The grant does not have a set-aside designation and has a completion date of May 31, 2024. RPI has experience...
This contract award, valued at $9,059,049.00, was issued by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private research university located in Troy, New York. The contract is a cooperative agreement that supports RPI's research program focused on studying the prebiotic chemistry and early Earth environments that led to the origins of life. The work will integrate geochemical, geophysical, and planetary dynamics approaches to obtain...
This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC23K0775, was granted to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private research university located in Troy, New York. The $900,000.00 grant is for a research project titled "UNRAVELING THE ROLE OF MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION AND SENESCENCE ON INHIBITION OF TISSUE REGENERATION DURING SPACEFLIGHT AND AMELIORATION BY A NOVEL COUNTERMEASURE, PQQ." The contract is awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency. RPI, which...